This year and next, voters in leading Western democracies will make decisions that could fundamentally change the West – and the world – as we have known it for decades.

Britain faces the prospect of a “hard” Brexit that threatens to further roil markets after a plunge in the pound to multi-year low points this week.

Globalisation is beleaguered partly because of decisions made by governments under the auspices of an open international order

When I went to the Souq Waqif public park for my routine early morning walk at 5:10am the other day, I left my car in the parking lot nearby.

A topologist is a person who cannot tell the difference between a coffee mug and a donut -so goes a joke about a little-known scientific field crowned on Tuesday with a Nobel Physics Prize.

When Philippines police chief Ronald Dela Rosa gave a rousing speech to his men at a regional headquarters in Luzon, they rewarded him with a gift: a replica of the sword used by actor Mel Gibson in the movie Braveheart.

The Paris climate agreement was adopted by nearly 200 countries in an historic vote last December.

Five years after the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, the Silicon Valley tech giant is bigger and stronger, despite lingering doubts over its future without the visionary leader.

Ethiopia is going through its most widespread and sustained protests since the ruling Ethiopia People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front came to power in 1991

Electrifying brain circuits could treat neurological and psychiatric symptoms not because it causes neurons to fire but it creates an environment that makes it more or less likely for neurons to fire, researchers have found.

After years as the court jester of British politics, Boris Johnson now has one of its top jobs as foreign minister.

There is no question that the recovery from the global recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis has been unusually lengthy and anaemic.