Opinion

Friday 11/March/2016 15:22 PM

Empty promises and dead children

Buried among the 169 targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – adopted by the United Nations last September amid a blaze of glitzy...

Thursday 10/March/2016 13:38 PM

So to speak: Travelling stress

You would think that in this modern era of jet engine technology, travelling would be full of fun. It is not and it is increasingly becoming stressful and...

Wednesday 09/March/2016 15:19 PM

The US election's echoes of 1996 Russia

The very strange US presidential election bears some surprising similarities to the 1996 campaign in Russia -- a momentous event that undermined a fragile...

Wednesday 09/March/2016 14:54 PM

Sharapova failed a drug test. Maybe.

Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova, the world's highest-paid female athlete, announced on Monday that she had failed a drug test at the Australian Open...