12 risks that could cause THE END of the world

Researchers at the Global Challenges Foundation in Stockholm have released a thorough scientific assessment of what threatens human civilisation, or even possibly, all human life. The assessment is......

COLUMN: Some light at the end of the 2012 tunnel?

Whichever way you look at it, from a global perspective 2012 has not been a good year, writes Claude Smadja. The euro zone has been sinking deeper in the last 12 months.The debt-to-GDP ratio......