Washington state enacts new gun controls
Washington state joined a handful of other states that ban anyone under 21 from buying a semi-automatic assault rifle after…
US government shuts down
A partial US government shutdown has taken effect after US lawmakers failed to break a budget impasse. This is the…
Germany closes last coal mine
Germany will close its last black coal mine on Friday, a milestone marking the end of a 200-year-old industry that…
Reporters accused of Fake News
Two of Europe’s leading newspapers are seeing their employees being accused of propagating fake news by writing unverifiable stories and…
Affordable Healthcare Act Repealed
A federal judge in Texas said on 14 December ruled that the Affordable Care Act's individual coverage mandate is unconstitutional…
Genome Project: A Healthcare Revolution
A Cambridge research project has sequenced 100,000 genomes from around 85,000 people. The aim is to create a new genomic…
Global governance in a hyper-connected world
The eleventh edition of the World Policy Conference was held in Rabat, Morocco, from the 26-28th of October 2018. Tobby…
EU Fights Election-Time Fake News
European Union authorities want internet companies including Google, Facebook and Twitter to file monthly reports on their progress eradicating "fake…
Denmark’s new “migrant island”
Denmark’s right-leaning coalition government announced that the island of Lindholm will house about 100 migrants, mostly asylum seekers who cannot…
India’s Malnutrition Crisis
Global Nutrition Report 2018 revealed that the global burden of malnutrition is unacceptably high and now affects every country in…