The conviction of two billionaire investors by a court in Italy marks a turning point in the battle to eradicate asbestos, one of the most efficient – and lethal – components used in the construction industry throughout the world.
Eva Joly, the Norwegian-born Green Party candidate for the French presidency, says the solution to the economic crisis in France and abroad is more green politics, not less.
With EU and IMF officials piling the pressure on Greece to step up its austerity drive in return for a vital new bailout, elected officials in Athens are desperate to show they still have a say in how the country is run.
Two days after US President Barack Obama put tax reform at the heart of his re-election campaign, France's Socialist nominee François Hollande pledged to raise levies on banks, big firms and the rich to plough the country out of debt.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has begun a landmark visit to Burma to test the country’s commitment to reform and pursue Washington’s policy of engagement in China’s backyard.
Nine months after ushering in the Arab Spring, Tunisians have voted en masse in the nation’s first free election. But the mostly joyful occasion underscored the scale of the challenge the country’s newly elected representatives will face.
Days after Libya's bloody uprising culminated in the lynching of the country’s reviled dictator, voters in neighbouring Tunisia are called upon to write another – hopefully more peaceful – chapter in the Arab Spring they fostered.
With world leaders still struggling to find an answer to climate change, two documentaries screened at the Pariscience film festival highlight the crucial – and costly – role played by the planet’s greatest natural assets against carbon emissions.
One swimming in cash and the other struggling to stay afloat, both China and the US are dispatching senior officials to Europe amid growing fears that the debt-laden bloc may drag them down in its fall.
As debt-saddled governments on both sides of the Atlantic scramble to make cuts from the left, right and centre, a number of billionaires have sparked a fierce debate by suggesting it is time that the wealthy paid their share of the dues.
