Geo-engineering: good to have up our sleeve
"We are getting into very risky territory," said Christiana Figueres, head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, last week.
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Non-violent revolution
The "Prague Spring" of 1968 was a gallant attempt at a non-violent democratic revolution, but it was crushed by Soviet tanks.
World view: What comes next for Yemen after Saleh?
President Ali Abdullah al-Saleh, in power in Yemen for the past 33 years and under siege for the past three months, left the country on Saturday night with a large piece of shrapnel lodged just b
Threat of arrest by court real deterrent
The arrest of the former Bosnian Serb military commander, Ratko Mladic, for the murder of 7500 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995, helped Serbia's campaign for membership in the European Uni
Sound predictions or not?
The economists, the statisticians and the investment bankers have done their work, and everybody in the financial world now has more or less the same picture of the future in their minds.
Could it be all a plot?
World view: Accord just window-dressing
Palestine is ripe for a revolution.
How do we know that?
Al Qaeda not all it seemed
Better the devil you know...
It's safe to say that we will never see an alliance between Israel and al Qaeda.
World view: Can Nigeria escape the curse?
The war in Ivory Coast is over, or so we are told.