That is not surprising. Namibia is one of the most beautiful places in the world, and its people cultivate its environment and protect its animals.

New Delhi – In late April, a 17-year-old girl named Kriti Tripathi leaped to her death in Kota, India, shortly after passing the country's examination for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT).

If Obama can ensure the ratification of the TPP and bring the TTIP negotiations to a conclusion, he will have laid the groundwork for future progress. If he falls short on either task – or, catastrophically, fails on both – the world will face a far more uncertain future.

For 200 years, there have been two schools of thought about what determines the distribution of income – and how the economy functions.

Armed with such assessments, donor countries must structure assistance in a way that mitigates corruption risks. Military or development assistance is not apolitical. Programmes must be tailored to ensure that funds are not captured by kleptocratic elites. This means that anti-corruption efforts can no longer be shunted off to under-resourced specialists; they must be central to the planning of major development initiatives or the sale of costly weapons systems. Recipient governments must understand that funding will dry up if they continue to squander or steal it.

Prime Minister David Cameron declared outright that the Kohinoor would have to “stay put,” because “if you say yes to one, you would suddenly find the British Museum would be empty.” With Kumar having essentially taken Britain's side on the Kohinoor issue, albeit for different reasons, nationalists like me are losing hope that we will get that priceless element of our heritage back.

Muscular language has become increasingly prevalent in the debate about how to counter the threat of jihadist terrorism. Television

We have entered the age of migration. If all the people who live outside the country of their birth united to form their own – a republic of the rootless – it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, with a population of more than 240 million people.

I wrote at the beginning of January that economic conditions this year were set to be as weak as in 2015, which was the worst year

Sixty-six years after adopting one of the world's most liberal constitutions, India is being convulsed by a searing debate over...

Discus-sion of education in the Arab world has focused only rarely on the role of schooling in changing social and political mores.

One does not need to be particularly good at hearing to decipher the dog whistles being used during this year's election campaign in the United States.

Some people run simply out of ego or greed. The publicity that attends a presidential bid can garner even a failed candidate a book contract, a television gig, or a well-paid speaking career (or perhaps all three). Trump ran on the basis of his celebrity.

Today, intra-regional trade accounts for just 5 percent of South Asia's total trade, compared to 25 percent for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. This vast untapped potential presents the region with an opportunity for growth that does not rely on the strength of the world economy.

No foreign country features as prominently in American presidential election campaigns as Israel, and those aspiring to occupy the

SOMETHING interesting has emerged in voting patterns on both sides of the Atlantic: Young people are voting in ways that are

A number of seemingly unrelated controversies in India actually have one important element in common: They all relate to criminal

In 1963, French President Charles de Gaulle stunned the United Kingdom by rejecting its application to join the European Economic

Only the dead have seen the end of war.” George Santayana's dictum seems particularly appropriate nowadays, with the Arab world, from Syria and Iraq to Yemen and Libya, a cauldron of violence; Afghanistan locked in combat with the Taliban; swaths of central Africa cursed by bloody competition – often along

The first challenge to the Western hegemony that followed the collapse of Communism in Europe was the emergence of the so-called...