A Google search for the word “sustainability” gave 970 million hits in English and 12 million in Arabic. The difference between the two reflects much

Over half a century ago, the Swedish Nobel Laureate Carl Gunnar Myrdal published his three-volume Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations (1968),

“The lands beyond the river” conjures up the history of the early Islamic conquests of the area between the Jayhun (Amur Darya) River in the

With the collapse of Kabul, 20 years after the US invasion of Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden informed the world that the purpose of the

In only a couple of years or so, central banks worldwide will start issuing digital currencies that we will carry in digital wallets on our

An old maxim among traders on the stock exchange says “buy on rumours, and sell when on news.” In practical terms, this means that when

On the eve of the UEFA European Football Championship, a BBC reporter asked an English football fan which side he expected to win. The reporter

I recently heard the famous quotation “the future isn’t what it used to be” used at a university commencement ceremony in the UK.  The speaker,

This week’s three-day meeting of the G7 group of countries in Cornwall on Britain’s southwest coast was strikingly different in character to recent precedents. At