SEATTLE — According to the most recent tally, The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal publish a combined total of 1,000 stories every day.

SEATTLE — Twenty-five years ago, South Africa held its first free elections after the end of apartheid. The African National Congress won overwhelmingly, and its leader, Nelson Mandela, began to knit the country back together as its new president.

SEATTLE — Technology is often oversold as either a panacea for the world’s problems or an unshakeable curse inflicting disruption and displacement on the most vulnerable. But historically, neither of these characterisations is accurate.

A key agenda item at this year’s annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, under way this week, will be to assess global progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the UN’s consensus roadmap for solving the world’s biggest challenges by 2030.I was par

Official development assistance (ODA) helps to save lives, build more stable and safer societies and project soft power around the world.That is a point that my boss, Bill Gates, drove home recently, when he addressed the United Kingdom’s leading military and security thinkers at