Every January since 2009, Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, and his wife, Melinda, have written a “letter” to the world. This year’s letter came...
Nigerians have suddenly acquired superhuman powers and can now survive without oxygen or on a limited supply, new research has shown. And this is thanks to...
MONROVIA — About a year ago I cared for Sharon, a 60-year-old woman who had traveled from California’s central valley to UC San Francisco for...
NEW DELHI — Election cycles are growing longer worldwide. In the United States, for example, ambitious politicians are already campaigning hard in bellwether states for...
The Technology industry has been growing by leaps and bounds in the past few years, and it does not simply involve mobiles, tablets, laptops and...
The spoils of the falling Arab Spring have been divided among many. If the most obvious beneficiaries have been the old guard, Arab autocrats and...
In October 1993, Tutsi soldiers assassinated Burundi’s Hutu president, Melchior Ndadaye. The killing plunged the country into a spate of ethnic violence that would ultimately...
NAIROBI — When, in September 2013, Al Shabaab terrorists occupied the Westgate Mall, an upmarket shopping center in Nairobi, taking captives, the Kenyan government did...
Some journalists in France specialised in printing what some people considered offensive. They said they had the freedom to print whatever they liked. Eight of...
On January 7, two gunmen stormed—later identified as Islamist activists of Algerian descent—stormed the editorial headquarters of “Charlie Hebdo,” an irreverent, anti-religious weekly publication. In...