This is undoubtedly the biggest disaster in Japan since atomic bombs were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the final stages of World War II ...

The brutal realities in Libya, fears of damage to US credibility and heavy domestic and international pressure pushed President Barack Obama into military action against Muammar Gaddafi...

When something on a large scale happens somewhere in the world, we tend to take time and reflect on the event ...

Not since 1989 has the world seen such an all-consuming, all-engulfing wildfire of freedom and democracy, whose burning passions are sweeping across a region vast and old and desperately in need of reform...

The immaturity of Maltese democracy has been painfully illustrated over the last few weeks by the miserable shortcomings of our politicians in the Libyan crisis, and by the failure of most of the rest of us to object....

Industrial policy (IP) is back – or rather, back in fashion. Of course, it never really went away, even in countries formally adhering to free-market principles...

A recent National Geographic issue synthesised in a wonderful way the advances being made in stem cell research and the successes coming through, which will soon render the debate on embryonic stem cells obsolete...

Spectators at February’s Daytona 500 in Florida were handed green flags to wave in celebration of the news that the race’s stock cars now use gasoline with 15% corn-based ethanol...

While I have no hesitation in condemning the Prime Minister for his fundamentalist speech on the divorce issue in Parliament...

An operation to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya will almost certainly establish quick superiority over Muammar Gaddafi’s outdated air force...