Early in the financial crisis, a major emerging-market investor told me: “This is not a global, but a semi-global financial crisis...

In response to a survey by SOS Malta and the UNHCR, one African refugee said he used to think of the Maltese as rude people, but now understands that ‘they don’t know anything about migration’ and this accounts for certain bad behaviour....

Rick Perry, the Republican governor of Texas who’s likely to soon join the race for the party’s presidential nomination...

At least 38 people were killed and more than 200 injured by the recent crash of two high-speed trains near Zhenzhou in Zhejiang, a province in China...

You can always trust the Americans, Winston Churchill said, because in the end they will do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities. For the last 18 months...

Regardless of how much we might have increased or decreased our carbon footprint, it is becoming increasingly evident that under the Gonzi regime hot air is definitely not in short supply...

Facing tenacious uprisings, the leaders of Syria, Libya and Yemen must have thought of their own possible fates when they saw their one-time peer Hosni Mubarak in a defendant’s cage, on trial for charges that could carry a death sentence...

Yet again, famine stalks the Horn of Africa. More than ten million people are fighting for survival, mainly pastoralist communities in the hyper-arid regions of Somalia, Ethiopia, and northern Kenya...

Recent well-publicised events, but also contacts with various sections and understanding what is going on at ground level have all led me ...

What is truly shocking, about the cases of sexual child abuse by priests, is that people either chose to ignore what was going on, or, giving them the benefit of the doubt, were too naive to believe in such wickedness. Although...