Deployment of UAS vehicles has intensified in recent years and they look set to play a significant role in the future, for better or worse

American politics is poised to split at the seams again over recent banking reforms as Democrats and Republicans continually clash about how to best foster an economic recovery

China has put its relations with Latin America’s largest economy back on track by sending Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff home with billions of dollars in pledged investments, showing its economic clout and easing, for now, Brazil’s concerns over trade imbalances

Sombre analyses of America’s decline come in waves and the latest seems to be gathering strength. “AMERICAN DECLINE. This Time It’s Real” proclaims a recent magazine cover. “Yes, America is in Decline,” echoes another. Time to prepare obituaries for the world’s remaining superpower? How long will it take for the US to follow the example […]

Can Japan’s spirited youth save their ageing nation?

Throughout the fields and city streets, forward-thinking Cuba is beginning to embrace widespread change

The banking sector in the Middle East is gaining increasing stature in the world of finance

Michelle Nichols discovers how microfinance still faces hurdles in empowering Afghan women

Chrystia Freeland explores the effect of social media
on worldwide events

Many believe that Africa is experiencing a global land rush for its resources. Hopefully it won’t lead to unethical behaviour

Russia is struggling to deal with the repercussions of a deep-rooted heroin culture. The government’s ban on Methadone is arguably making things worse

Bernt Debusmann on the future of the pirate trade