The geography of poverty and social deprivation has changed dramatically over the last two decades. More than 70% of the world’s poor now live in middle-income countries....

In many ways, the coming referendum on divorce in Malta mirrors discussions that I was party to in Ireland some years ago...

From the shores of the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf, women and men in many Arab-Muslim countries are demanding that their rulers democratise, and that dictators monopolising power and national wealth for their own profit step down...

Those campaigning against divorce legislation were out on the hustings again yesterday, with more of the sort of irrational reasoning that makes the rest of us even more determined to vote Yes...

Japan’s nuclear disaster has fuelled fear and uncertainty among all of the world’s producers of nuclear power. For India, an energy-starved country, much is at stake...

The standing of the Maltese Church and of the Maltese Parliament has been diminished by the divorce debate. The abiding impression is one of hypocrisy as each of these human institutions has manoeuvred to retain their power over the Maltese people....

On a warm spring night, imagine you are walking to the metro after enjoying a film at the cinema. Suddenly, two men jump in front of you. One hits you on the head while the other rifles through your pockets...

The table accompanying Noel Grima’s report (TMID, 14 May) about the Maltese economy, plus analysis, provide concern about the real state of Malta’s economy...

Being in total agreement with PL leader Joseph Muscat that immigration, jobs and energy are three of the uppermost priorities of a future PL government, it ...

In contrast to most South Asian countries, modern India has always been officially ‘secular’, a word the country inscribed in its Constitution in 1976. Secularism, here, is not synonymous with ...