When it comes to engineering, we may still be some way behind the genius of nature

Yesterday, the four men convicted of raping and killing a 23-year-old student on a bus in Delhi were sentenced to death. As the news was delivered to crowds waiting outside the courtroom, they...

The political theorist Marshall Berman died yesterday at the age of 73 in New York, the city he lived in all his life (he was born in the South Bronx and would later write furiously yet lyrically...

Russia's improvised solution is logistically and morally unsound

In late July, there were riots in Trappes, south of Paris, after a woman was stopped by police and instructed to remove her full-face veil in accordance with legislation passed by the government of...

Since the Syrian civil war began, more than two million people have fled the war torn land. Among them are thousands of pregnant women. Two and a half thousand Syrians have given birth inside Turkish...

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office ought to iron the American flag it brings out for such events. The UK one too, while it’s at it. The crumpled state of the draped banners behind William Hague...

Everyone’s a feminist these days, or so it seems if you dip a manicured toe into the blogosphere. The latest wave of women’s liberation is spreading thick and fast, with everyone from Lads Mags...

As the votes are being counted following the country’s general election, some have asked if this year will spell the end of Mugabe’s rule

Should Scotland break away from the rest of the UK? As Andrew Marr makes clear, the decision turns in the end on feelings about nationhood, not economics, and the result could be closer than the...