Even as the United States and its allies carry out aerial bombardments in Iraq and Syria, their target, Daesh, may be preparing to retaliate on another front.By taking the battle into cyberspace, Daesh would gain many of the advantages of asymmetric warfare — unless the US organi

 On April 22, dignitaries representing no fewer than 175 parties signed the global climate change agreement concluded in Paris in December, setting a record for the adoption of an international accord.The show of support is heartening.

 Pope Francis has called corruption “the gangrene of a people”.

 A few years ago, the global campaign to eradicate polio seemed to have stalled.

The Nuclear Security Summit process, which concluded earlier this month in Washington, DC, shows what can be achieved when political leaders come together to concentrate on a global problem.The six-year initiative, focused on preventing nuclear terrorism, produced important outco

 Last December in Paris, world leaders came together to agree on a set of goals and pathways for decarbonising the global economy and increasing our capacity to adapt to climate change.It was a landmark achievement, but it was just the beginning.Every country — with the supp

By now, it has become almost a cliché to say that the war on drugs has failed.The prohibitionist approach, most fully articulated by former US president Richard Nixon, has done little to curb drug use, but it has had devastating consequences for individuals and societies worldwid

The list of places in Europe and Africa that have suffered from jihadist terrorism is rapidly growing: the seaside town of Grand-Bassam in Côte d’Ivoire, nightspots in Paris and transport hubs in Brussels, to name just a few.In Europe, recent investigations suggest that Daesh has

In 1899, German-American scientist Jacques Loeb engineered the asexual reproduction of sea urchins through artificial parthenogenesis (the manipulation of egg cells to enable embryonic development without fertilisation).His speculation about complete parthenogenesis in mammals —