Events in 2012 so far have confirmed a new global dissymmetry. Caught between unprecedented financial insecurity and a sombre economic outlook, the rich OECD countries and their middle classes fear geopolitical weakening and ...

Developments in Libya have been positive and stability within the country seems to be within reach. But we must not forget that the conflict has had severe consequence...

A long-range rocket launch planned by North Korea probably would wreck its recent food-for-nuclear concessions agreement with the United States and, with it, hopes for improving relations under the North’s new leader, Kim Jong Un...

The passing away of a President, as was Ċensu Tabone, made the headlines in the past week. It was a proper, sincere tribute to a great man. Having lived in Birkirkara Hill, St Julian’s...

More than half of the Maltese population had the opportunity to have their say in the local council election. The result reflected various views, both at a local level as well as on a national one...

Do you ever get the feeling that men caught up in gangland activities are starring in an action crime film that spools through their own minds? It’s almost as though they enjoy the trappings and subterfuge more than they enjoy the proceeds...

For his first visit to Spanish-speaking Latin America, Pope Benedict XVI has chosen the region’s most Roman Catholic country – and its least...

We are getting fatter. In Australia, the United States, and many other countries, it has become commonplace to see people so fat that they waddle rather than walk...

Afghanistan is not Iraq, US officials have been fond of saying from the first days of Barack Obama’s presidency...

Now that the local council elections are out of the way and both parties are analysing the results of the 10 March poll from every possible angle, the country has already found itself shifting back to its ‘normal’ everyday life ...