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An economic development revolution lies literally in the palm of a single hand. As mobile phones and digital technologies rapidly spread around the world,...

December will be a month of reconciliation for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, as he meets with leaders from two countries that fought Japan in World...

Thanks to unprecedented international cooperation, the world is making impressive progress in the fight against malaria. According to the World Health...

Everyone except the next president seems to understand that Russia interfered in the U.S. election. It's not just the latest CIA assessments, or the...

Late last month, Chancellor Angela Merkel's top foreign policy adviser was asked what a Donald Trump presidency would mean for Germany and offered a...

Muscat: A car exhibition has become part of the newly revamped Al Mazaar Edutainment Centre and is free for public viewing for a whole year. With some...

A few days ago, US President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter – his medium of choice – to declare that he did not need China’s permission to contact...

Donald Trump's campaign promise to crack down on visas for skilled foreign technology workers has a cheerleader in China. Robin Li, the head of Baidu,...

Today, there are 21.3 million refugees worldwide. That is 21.3 million people who have been driven from their countries by fear of violence or oppression....

Three years ago, a young boy in rural Guinea fell victim to the Ebola virus. An epidemic soon took hold of West Africa. By the time it was contained, it had...