After six months of courtroom drama, judge Thokozile Masipa has eliminated a key charge from her verdict on Oscar Pistorius: the premeditated murder of Reeva Steenkamp.
US President Barack Obama has announced a more aggressive strategy against Islamic State, including air strikes against its fighters “wherever they are”, even inside Syria.
This is the question that will be keeping Yes supporters up at night. Having come this far, what will life look like if they don’t quite cross the line? We asked our panel for guidance.
With tensions running high over host country Turkey’s internet censorship, this year’s Internet Governance Forum has exposed the deepest divisions yet over how the internet should be run.
The Better Together campaign would have you believe that new forecasts about a potentially huge increase in North Sea oil potential are unrealistic. Actually, they are a game changer.
In an eagerly anticipated keynote, Apple has moved into wearables – its first new product category since 2010, and launched a system for electronic payments.
The volunteer is at the heart of British perceptions of the World War I. We are all familiar with images of young men leaving home, standing in long queues at recruiting stations, and being examined by…
From an early age, I was fascinated by any story about war. Being born in 1969, and being a child in the 1970s, a large number of my “play” options were linked to the war. I read comics such as Warlord…
When Britain declared war on Germany on August 4 1914, there had been a very long period of relative peace in Europe, stretching almost a century from the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815. There were…
How prepared were the Great Powers for war in 1914? Too often, this question has been answered by pointing to expectations of a short war, and to muddle and inefficiency in its opening stages. The realities…
Robin Williams’s suicide has led many to open up about depression in an effort to raise awareness about how many people are living in misery. One of the most common themes in this public discussion has…
Five-year-old Dahlia Zabrano-Tercero at a July vigil for young Central American migrants in California.
Five-year-old Dahlia Zabrano-Tercero at a July vigil for young Central American migrants in California.
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