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Some of South Sudan's 6,000 schools opened for a new academic year last month -- but the government does not know how many. Teachers have not been paid....

A few years ago, I wrote a book called The Next Convergence, about how developing economies were “catching up” to their advanced counterparts in terms...

For decades, the Western world put its faith in a well-defined and broadly accepted economic paradigm with applications at both the national and global...

Donald Trump’s retweets of anti-Muslim videos first circulated by an anti-immigrant, far-right British party were just the tip of the iceberg. From...

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution stands out from its predecessors in a critical way: rather than making it easier for humans to use their surroundings more...

We know by now what illiberal democracies are. They are countries like Russia, Hungary and Poland, where the formal rules of democratic elections are...

A cavernous bunker on a remote island above the Arctic Circle, where polar bears roam, holds the key to 12,000 years of agriculture but also to food...

The desert wind whipping their faces, hundreds of Venezuelan migrants lugging heavy suitcases and overstuffed backpacks trudge along the road to the...

By Beh Lih Yi KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Malaysian entrepreneur Majidah Hashim quit her corporate job and set up a business...