Europe is an ageing continent. Its population is decreasing rapidly as a percentage of the world population due mainly to falling fertility rates and longer life expectancy. Forecasts ...

Can moral judgements be true or false? Or is ethics, at bottom, a purely subjective matter, for individuals to choose, or perhaps relative to the culture of the society in which one lives? We might have just found out the answer...

Certainly, there are plenty of other things closer to home to worry about than the parlous and deteriorating state of relations between Israel and the Palestinians...

This past week readers would have followed the debate in Parliament on the salaries of ministers and parliamentary secretaries...

At a time when the global economy is suffering from a crisis of confidence, structural imbalances...

Daily news reports demonstrate that western conceptions of political secularism have fared poorly in many other societies. More surprising is that such ...

Isn’t there somebody who can take Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando gently to one side and let him know that the only sorts of decisions you should discuss on your very public Facebook wall have to do with what you should feed your hamster and when?...

Led by Asia, the share of the global economy held by emerging markets has risen steadily over recent decades...

The rule of law is the bed-rock of civilised society. Respect for the rule of law and the fair, speedy and efficient administration of justice are central to any successful democracy and the well-being of its people...

Just before the fourth trilateral summit between Japan, China, and South Korea began on 21 May, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan...