With the value of Bitcoin having fallen by around 70 per cent since its peak late last year, the mother of all bubbles has now gone bust. More generally,...
US President Donald Trump is using economic warfare to pursue his foreign-policy objectives. In August, his administration announced that it would double...
Once forbidden by colonialists from cultivating coffee, indigenous people in southern India have won a prestigious award for their bean, which they farm...
When the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was announced, it was met by a sigh of relief around the world. A deal to replace the North American...
The world is finally waking up to the threat posed by one of the most overlooked diseases of our time. Last month, the United Nations General Assembly...
In his recent best-selling book Factfulness, the late international health expert Hans Rosling shows that horrors such as natural disasters, oil spills, and...
In mid-July, former US President Barack Obama used a speech in South Africa to implore the world to invest more in the education of Africa’s youth. A...
The record-setting heat that blanketed the planet this summer was a sticky reminder that as global temperatures increase, people on the margins of society...
Three days before US President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping portrayed Beijing as the champion and defender of...
