It was already looking likely that President Bashar Assad's regime would survive. But the events of the past two weeks have made it virtually certain.

Why is rape so much more prevalent in Africa than anywhere else in the world

Ecuador's model for a system that helps poor countries avoid the need to ruin their environment to make ends meet has failed, because the rich countries would not support it.

Compared with any other English-speaking people, a great many Australians are openly racist. That's why "boat people" these days are settled in Papua New Guinea.

Edward Snowden, a former contractor to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, has been trapped in the transit lounge of Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow for the past two weeks, while the United States government strives mightily to get him back in its clutches. Recently it ...

It would be easy to blow off the plans to build a canal across Nicaragua to connect both oceans if it were not for the expected support of the Chinese government.

It's hard enough to see how the world can sustain another 4 billion people by 2100. The alarming figure is that three-quarters of that growth will be in Africa.

The Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will serve as the first real test of Egypt's tolerance for upstream dam-building on the Nile.

Many people don't want to admit how violent our "primitive" past was, because they are afraid that our past will define our future — despite evidence to the contrary.

George W. Bush wasn't lying about Iraq after all. Saddam Hussein did have weapons of mass destruction ? pressure cookers in the homes of Iraqi officials.

Unfortunately a there is third option regarding the world's fate. It piggybacks civilizational collapse because of global warming with the Mother of Recessions.

Somalia was a failed state for more than 20 years. But now it has come back enough for the U.N. Security Council to partially lift the embargo on arms sales.