Despite the well-publicised generosity of the G8 countries in forgiving US$18 billion of their country's debt, ordinary Nigerians are not rejoicing.
If one is looking for a model statesman, it is difficult to go past Thomas More, the English Lord Chancellor who lost his head for resisting Henry VIII.
How the West won was Globalisation 2.0. How India and China could beat the West at its own game may be Globalisation 3.0, says Thomas Friedman.
The West is losing its scientific lead in the world and governments are looking for ways to attract more young people to the laboratory. But can they succeed against the attractions of a consumer society?
An expert on dinosaurs claims to have delivered a killer blow to the credentials of religion by examining international health statistics. It's not very convincing.
Calls to limit population growth in the Philippines are misguided, says a leading economist in an exclusive MercatorNet interview. Big families are the ultimate resource.
The idea of medical intervention to change one's sex has gained credibility in recent years. Dr Rick Fitzgibbons thinks that it has been a great mistake.
Why did a credulous American media believe the grim fairy tales of murder, rape and pillage in New Orleans even though there was precious little evidence for them?
A stunning new documentary from Switzerland shows that supporters of the right to die do have a religion, of sorts. It's called euthanasia.
Is three the new two? Moves in France and elsewhere to stave off population decline are drawing attention to the importance of bigger families.
The best-selling fable The Alchemist contains the quintessence of Paulo Coelho's philosophy.
The ideas of New Age gurus are worse than twaddle about crystals and dolphins: they’re appallingly self-centred. Take Paulo Coelho's latest novel, for instance.
Fussy Eurocrats and their regulations wouldn't get within a bull's roar of the fiesta in a small corner of Spain in early September.
A fresh look at the evidence has convinced a Jewish rabbi that the controversial Pius XII should be honoured as a “righteous Gentile”.
According to a 1960s brainwave, self-esteem will save the world from crime, drug abuse, underachievement and pollution. But the evidence is less and less convincing.
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