Progress on gender equality is slowing down. At the current rate of change, it’s going to take 108 years to close the Global Gender Gap, which now stands at 68%. That adds eight years to ...
They might not have won the FA Cup - or even be in the Premier League - but UK football team Forest Green Rovers has been honoured by the UN for being as ‘green’ as the turf the play on.
The battle for gender equality is gaining ground in both the developed and developing world. But when countries are hit by crises, women and girls are worse affected than males, according...
Want to live and work in Canada? That dream could become a reality now the government has announced plans to accept more than a million immigrants in the next three years.
If you happen to be walking through the Spanish capital this weekend, you might think its roads are a little less busy than other cities - and you’d be right.
While we’re living longer, not everyone is living healthier and happier lives – and many countries are struggling to look after an increasingly lonely, ageing population.
If we all swapped beef burgers and bacon sandwiches for vegetarian alternatives most of the week, we could cut greenhouse gas emissions from the food sector by more than half.
Tills in Europe will be ringing loudly from Black Friday onwards, as consumers make the most of pre-Christmas sales.
Silence. No hammering from construction sites. No planes taking off. Even the banks stay shut on the most important day of the year for South Korea’s students.
The smiles on their faces and squeals of excitement said it all - a young brother and sister from Eritrea were seeing snow for the first time ever, in their adoptive new home of Canada.
La manière dont les pays s'adapteront à la Quatrième révolution industrielle (4IR) déterminera s'ils « prospèrent » ou « stagnent » et pourrait diviser davantage la main-d'œuvre et accroî...
Forget the Loire Valley and Eiffel Tower - by 2030, the Yellow Mountains and Shanghai Tower will be topping global travel bucket lists as China leapfrogs France to become the world’s top ...
Imagine a future lit by bioluminescent LEDs that not only use fewer of Earth’s resources to manufacture, but also improve your mood by mimicking the sun throughout the day.
L’Allemagne est actuellement l’économie leader en matière d’innovation - en partie grâce à la rapidité avec laquelle elle développe de nouvelles technologies telles que les voitures sans ...
When the world gathers in Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh later this month for the biennial conference of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, how well we’re protecting the planet will be i...
