In the coming decades the world is likely to enter a new space race—and the agreements in place to govern what can and can’t be done are long out of date

The Polynesian island has intrigued generations of Western explorers and scholars. But much of what they had previously assumed is wrong

Assad can claim victory over a shattered nation. But for how long?

Given the tension between the two countries, the UK is unlikely to give China access to its nuclear energy. But a trade dispute would affect us more than them

Hologram and holy man, sectarian and seer, the Indian prime minister is a trick of the light

Sixty years after Germany opened up a temporary guest-worker programme for Turks the younger generation is still struggling to find its place

The great powers have embarked on a new scramble for the Arctic, as profitable sea routes open up in melting ice. But unless we can salvage the region’s fragile ecology, all humanity’s fortunes will sink

The late president leaves a country still reeling from a pandemic he routinely denied

With Michel Barnier and Donald Tusk in charge of the Brexit brief, the EU played a diplomatic blinder against Britain. But today it’s a clueless Ursula von der Leyen who is holding the ring

This is no time for “I told you so”

My parliamentary committee has studied the outstanding issues. Both sides should put aside the antagonism and solve them together

Community isolation has benefits and drawbacks when combatting a deadly virus. How have different territories fared?