La conférence historique sur le financement du développement à Séville s'est conclue avec un sentiment renouvelé de détermination et un accent mis sur des actions qui peuvent changer des vies dans le ...

La peur règne, les armes crépitent, et l’État se désagrège. Dans les ruines institutionnelles d’Haïti, gangrenées par la violence des gangs, l’ONU vient de jouer une carte décisive : António Guterres ...

La capitale andalouse résonne encore du déluge de promesses de financement. Mais sur le terrain, la patience de la société civile est à bout. Sans volonté politique et véritable redistribution réelle ...

Long waiting times, burnt-out staff and rising inequality. Could a stronger focus on prevention, rather than just treatment, help save the NHS?

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2 ...

Companies are increasingly routing customers to chatbots. New research looks into whether customers prefer human or chatbots agents more, and under which circumstances.

Ebenezer Scrooge tried to wave away the ghost of Jacob Marley by blaming the apparition on “an undigested bit of beef … a crumb of cheese”. Charles Dickens might have been writing fiction, but the ...

The Cook Strait ferry fiasco is just another symptom of a wider malaise: an inability to deliver, on time and at cost, the infrastructure that keeps the economy moving.

Cutting data climate collection – as the Trump administration is now trying to do – is like breaking a thermometer to avoid knowing you’ve got a fever.

Eye patches aren’t just for pirates and villains. In Elio, Disney/Pixar introduces a young hero with a patch – and breaks old stereotypes in the process.

According to UN projections, the number of people in 85 countries will be shrinking by 2050, mostly in Europe and Asia. By 2100, the human population is on course for global decline.

Click to expand Image Rally in opposition of a tax bill, in front of the US Capitol, Washington DC, November 30, 2017. © 2017 Victoria Pickering/Flickr US headlines have been dominated by coverage of ...