Oil prices hit a four-year high of $82.01 a barrel on Tuesday after Saudi Arabia and Russia appeared to reject calls from the US to increase production amid looming sanctions against Iranian oil. Brent
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Europe's increasingly hardline refugee policy is raising concerns about the transparency of search and rescue in the Mediterranean, now that all vessels operated by aid organisations have been put out of action. Panamanian authorities
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Africa seems to make headlines for all the wrong reasons. People around the world associate the continent with extreme poverty, hunger, drought, civil wars and terrorism. Generations of politicians, activists and development experts have
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(CNN)New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has told CNN she hoped the decision to bring her 3-month-old baby to the United Nations General Assembly would "create a path for other women." Ardern's daughter Neve
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The founders of Instagram have resigned from the business they started eight years ago in San Francisco and built into a global phenomenon used by a billion people. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger founded
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Food photographers and brand ambassadors, move aside: Goldman Sachs is joining Instagram. The investment bank's official account, launching Tuesday, will feature content designed to endear the Goldman brand to a new generation. Look out
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GENEVA: When your job has been labelled “mission impossible,” failure may be the most likely outcome.There is no doubt that the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has persevered through extraordinary
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GENEVA: When your job has been labelled “mission impossible,” failure may be the most likely outcome.There is no doubt that the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has persevered through extraordinary
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US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is overseeing the investigation into alleged Russian interference during the 2016 election. Last week, the New York Times reported he had been looking at ways to secretly record
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London, England - Representing characters from minority backgrounds as complex, humanised beings has long been a contentious issue within the British arts landscape. The season finale on Sunday of The Bodyguard, a BBC drama,
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