As any doctor will tell you, what we hear in our surgeries goes far beyond health checks or diagnosis. People tend to open their hearts to the family ...

Four years ago I was invited to write a fortnightly column for this august publication. I was told that my continual globetrotting and interest in world affairs would bring a new and different ...

Back in 2007-2008, when the financial crisis was still called the ‘subprime’ crisis, Europeans felt superior to the United States. European bankers surely knew better than to hand out so-called ‘NINJA’ (no income, no job, no assets) loans...

Ivory Coast has been in turmoil ever since the last presidential election in November, in which Alassane Ouattara defeated the incumbent Laurent Gbagbo. This election was thought to be a catalyst in reunifying the country...

The metaphors used during the financial crisis of 2008-2009 – earthquake, tsunami, meltdown, black swan, and fallout – are back with a vengeance, but now they are being recycled literally...

The right to life, the right to an education, the right to privacy, and the right to be protected from economic or sexual exploitation are some of every child’s basic fundamental rights...

For a year, European policymakers have been busy fixing bugs in the design of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)...

On Tuesday, soldiers brought ashore 116 people who had been drifting in a 50-foot boat after running out of fuel...

The intense research on stem cells has led to considerable potential advantages and we have actually shown that intense ethical debate leads to even more innovation. In fact that necessity is the mother of invention has never been so true...

All of us who are currently locked into the debate on whether or not to introduce divorce legislation in Malta are firmly in favour of strong marriages and strong families. They are the bedrock of Maltese society...