Many Europeans enjoy having the freedom to take their pets abroad when on holiday...

US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates’s recent prognosis of a “dim” and “dismal” future for NATO has triggered much debate, but it could well prove optimistic...

The Times yesterday ran a story headlined ‘The Nightmare that is Bisazza’ – about, inevitably, the new pedestrian street in Sliema’s shopping centre. You know, because we have nothing else to talk about...

The world can breathe easier with the re-election this month of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to a second term in office. In a fractious world, global unity is especially vital...

Although I have already written about this topic before, I think it merits further reflection. No one can really judge parents who strive to make ends meet...

For months now, a fight over sovereign-debt restructuring has been raging between those who insist that Greece must continue to honour its signature and those for whom the country’s debt should be partly cancelled....

Had we managed to act on renewables as much as we have been talking about alternative energy then we surely must have long been on target for ages...

July will mark two milestones in America’s sometimes-tortured relations with Asia...

In ‘Indonesia’s Religious Freedom Must Be For All,’ Bernhard Platzdasch of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, writes that a clampdown on the Islamic Ahmadiyah...

When simple things are purposely complicated it inevitably becomes a treacherous road leading to final disaster. Experience, since the financial crisis ...