Life expectancy in the European Union has increased by an average of eight years since 1960 and is expected to increase by a further five years over the next four decades...

The Republican Party’s steadily rightward drift, exemplified by the tea party movement’s muscle, keeps hitting a quadrennial paradox that frustrates social conservatives: presidential primaries...

I’m sorry. I know that many of you are now turning the page and switching to a different channel when you see that man’s face or hear his name. And that you switch even faster when you hear his voice...

One of the defining images of Europe’s two-year-old debt crisis is that of the French and German leaders, side by side on a podium presenting their latest strategy for the continent...

Last month, US forces left Iraq eight years and seven months after President George W. Bush prematurely declared ‘Mission Accomplished,’ following the invasion in March 2003...

Reform leader Mohammed ElBaradei’s surprise pullout from the presidential race has laid bare the messiness of Egypt’s transition to democracy with less than six months left for the ruling generals to hand over power...

Regardless of what may be decided in Parliament later this week as well as irrespective of what the House Business Committee may have decided yesterday there is one certainty...

Iowa and New Hampshire have had their say. Next up are South Carolina and Florida, with Germany and France lurking in the background....

Forty years ago, I stood with a few other students in a busy Oxford street handing out leaflets protesting the use of battery cages to hold hens...

The government and the PN seem to have been so upset and unprepared for the possibility of losing their single seat majority in Parliament that they have lost all sense ...