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By Viswanathan Shankar - Sep 29, 2014 - Last updated at Sep 29, 2014 22:00
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called education the “single best investment” that countries can make to ...
By Shieh-ming Matthew Lee - Sep 25, 2014 - Last updated at Sep 25, 2014 22:19
His Majesty King Abdullah said “peace is the only solution”. ...
By Michael O’Sullivan - Sep 21, 2014 - Last updated at Sep 21, 2014 21:54
Scotland’s vote on independence from the United Kingdom has spurred widespread debate about the secession of small states, such as Slo ...
By Eduardo Escobar - Sep 17, 2014 - Last updated at Sep 17, 2014 22:33
Today the Republic of Chile celebrates 204 years of independence.
A distant country flanked along its long and narrow extension by the Paci ...
By Françoise Barré-Sinoussi - Sep 14, 2014 - Last updated at Sep 14, 2014 21:42
An ounce of prevention, Benjamin Franklin famously said, is worth a pound of cure.
But that is not always true when it comes to research in ...
By Mired Raad Zeid Al Hussein - Sep 13, 2014 - Last updated at Sep 13, 2014 21:53
Why are people with disabilities often absent from the workforce, and when included, they are few and often regarded as a novelty?
“T ...
By Hazem Qashou - Sep 13, 2014 - Last updated at Sep 13, 2014 21:52
Decentralisation is a foundation stone in the process of reform and development. ...
By Esther Dyson - Sep 08, 2014 - Last updated at Sep 08, 2014 21:50
The challenge of ensuring adequate, nutrient-rich food for an expanding global population is a daunting one, especially given constraints on ...
By Nael Raja Kabariti - Sep 06, 2014 - Last updated at Sep 06, 2014 21:44
At the beginning of the 1960s, as a young man, I took my first flight from Amman to Cairo. ...
By Konrad Niklewicz - Sep 01, 2014 - Last updated at Sep 01, 2014 22:20
August 30, 2014, may be remembered as the day when the division of the European Union into “new” and “old” member st ...