Opinion

Wednesday 30/March/2016 16:33 PM

Italy: No country for young men (and women)

Over the last 20 years, roughly a half-million Italians aged 18 to 39 have moved abroad, especially to more economically dynamic European Union countries...

Wednesday 30/March/2016 16:16 PM

The plight of hapless patients

Have you wondered why some doctors recommend so many tests, but rarely look at most of them when the results are actually received? Of course, the problem...

Tuesday 29/March/2016 17:05 PM

Human Istanbul: World Humanitarian Summit

Despite worldwide shock and indignation, it looks like little Aylan Kurdi’s tragic death last summer changed little. This is a sad – but brutal –...

Tuesday 29/March/2016 16:49 PM

The Girls in Green

The Girls in Green have done the country proud. They carried Pakistan’s banner and will now return home with the particular honour of having defeated...

Tuesday 29/March/2016 16:14 PM

Testing Republicans' love of guns

Beneath a photograph of an AR-15 with all the trimmings, an online petition calling for the open carry of firearms at the Republican National Convention in...

Monday 28/March/2016 17:06 PM

Oman: The historical gateway of the Gulf

When the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) launched a global appeal in 1990 to reexamine the ancient Silk Road, the...

Monday 28/March/2016 16:50 PM

Trump is a very European strongman

US politics today presents, to this foreign observer at least, a very un-American spectacle. A country originally built on immigration is awash with popular...