Can the world live with a nuclear North Korea?
This is, by any standards, the most provocative of North Korea’s recent missile tests.
Launching a rocket over Japanese territory - with at least the...
Disconnected world: Does technology make people touch each other less?
The sensation of human touch is disappearing in a computer age, and with it part of human nature, says the novelist Will Self.
In his...
Fighting for the spoils of Libya’s revolution
Libya is open, Libya is safe". With a fixed grin revealing a tightly clenched set of teeth, Jamal Zubia welcomed us to Tripoli.
By Ian...
Armed teachers: Pakistan’s desperate measures to protect schools
Following last month’s Taliban school massacre, Pakistan is allowing teachers to carry weapons. The BBC’s Shahzeb Jillani visits a school in Peshawar where staff...
The soldiers without enough weapons to fight Jihadists
By Will Ross
Imagine me and you are fighting," the soldier tells me. "We both have guns but while you are wearing a bullet proof...
