Last week, global attention focused on the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, which hosted the long-awaited United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, commonly dubbed ‘Rio+20’....

Often these days, the first order of business at European Union summits isn’t the continent’s dreadful financial crisis...

Europe’s leaders are meeting again. The question they must answer this time is not whether they can rescue this or that country, but whether they can rescue the eurozone – if not the European Union in its current form...

Top European officials have called on countries that use the euro to surrender more control over their national budgets, a move apparently aimed at easing Germany’s fears of sharing debt burdens with struggling governments like Spain or Italy...

Somehow, in all of this, I am left with the feeling that Jeffrey Pullicino (Orlando) is desperate to tie up all his loose ends before August...

Following the death of the Saudi Crown Prince Nayef, his brother Salman has been appointed the new heir-apparent: The third during octogenarian King Abdullah’s seven-year reign...

At the nadir of the financial crisis four years ago, many Asian governments came to believe that robust growth had led to a near-“decoupling” of their economies from the West and its ongoing problems...

In the politics of Nigeria, religion, ethnicity and regionalism are intermingled...

ACTA and GonziPN have one thing in common.They are both evidently on life support...

China has undoubtedly benefitted from the world system created and supported by the United States. Indeed, Richard Nixon’s journey to China in 1972 opened the door for China’s return to the international community...