By Ian SimpsonThu, Jan 10 2013 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The first black U.S. president is coming under fire from some of his own Democratic…
Without public support for postgraduate research, our universities – and the knowledge economy – will suffer Will Hutton The Observer, Saturday 5 January 2013…
By M K Bhadrakumar – January 5, 2013 2013 has barely got under way but Indian foreign policy is already trotting — between a…
By Mark Lowen BBC News, Athens At Friday prayers and across Athens, Muslims gather in underground, cramped prayer rooms. The makeshift facilities are illegal…
By Pumza Fihlani BBC News, Johannesburg South Africa is marketed to the world as Mandela’s rainbow nation, where everyone is proud of their race…
SINCE broadband began its inexorable spread at the start of this millenium, Internet use has expanded at a cosmic rate. Last year, the number…
By Chandran Nair We are struggling with the stubborn belief that markets, technology and liberal democracy will deliver all our needs The world is…
HOWARD DAVIES The quarter-century leading up to the financial crisis saw a remarkable leap in globalisation. In particular, cross-border financial flows grew rapidly. Western…
by WILLIAM BLUM From the Congress of Vienna of 1815 to the Congress of Berlin in 1878 to the “Allies” invasion of Russia in…
By Ross Pomeroy Common stereotypes would suggest that teenage males would be the only lot to take a marked interest in bouncing breasts. Not…