Readers will remember the news story carried in this newspaper last week on marriage and divorce. Figures we obtained from Eurostat and the...

There are some reports and studies that are shelved, others that are ignored, and yet others that are merely ‘passed for filing’.’...

Despite a very drastic U-turn by the Prime Minister, the public mood towards the whole debacle over salary increments for MPs and Ministers continues to be an ugly one....

Despite the pomp, pageantry and vows of cooperation, tensions between the United States and China are likely to grow, not shrink, after President Barack Obama’s summit meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao...

In recent weeks we have seen how certain segments of local media have attacked the government over price hikes. Reality however is somewhat different from the manner in which it is being portrayed....

Fifty years after John F. Kennedy summoned Americans to a new generation of leadership and patriotism, one thing is clear: This is no age of Camelot...

This is a tipping point for Pakistan. Will it survive the current maelstrom of challenges – exemplified by the recent assassination of Governor Salmaan Taseer of Punjab by one of his bodyguards, an Islamic zealot – or will it capsize? ...

The Digital Agenda for Europe 2010-2020 aims to contribute significantly to the EU’s economic growth and to spread the benefits of the digital era to all the sections in society. ...

The root cause of the problem is that cabinet ministers have been receiving their pay increase as members of parliament (not as ministers) for the last couple of years, straight after the decision was taken...

On the eastern edge of Kolkata, Dulu Bibi, a25-year-old mother of four, worries about the cost of treating her two sick boys. Her husband earns 80-90 rupees (€1.40) a day...