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Data from Pornhub shows the word ‘teen’ is among the most searched for terms – which raises a difficult question.
How where you live changes your way of thinking.
Fresh details about the findings of the World Anti Doping Authority raise questions about athletics chiefs.
IS has claimed a wave of deadly bombings and shootings in Jakarta, but its long-feared Asian campaign is yet to materialise in earnest.
Fears over violence in the African nation bring its leader to a crossroads.
British-made weapons are still finding their way into the wrong hands. Doesn’t parliament have a responsibility to stop that happening?
New survey information puts paid to ‘shy Tories’ theory.
Tensions at home and abroad make the latest attack by Islamic State particularly difficult to bear.
While bankers are still free to launder and hide dirty money, arresting one of the Cartel baddies won’t change anything.
Better hold off on booking that summer holiday to Europe.
The new, nationalist government is cutting ties in all directions, but it could soon run out of options.
The use of Brits in the terrorist group’s latest video is a deliberate strategy aimed at fuelling division.
Residents of Rio’s favelas are facing forced evictions – but they’re not moving out without a fight.
Sexuality is proving a destructive issue for the church.
People crossing the famous bridge from Denmark can expect to have their papers checked in a landmark change to border policy.
The “hot” phase of the Ukraine conflict may have passed, but Moscow and Kiev are hardly warming to each other.
Colombia has set up a new peace process to secure justice for hundreds of thousands of victims of the FARC. But it’s tried and failed at this approach before.
There were more protests in Britain last year than at any time since the 1970s.
It appears that the days of the stiff upper lip are over – but there are some who will still take the opportunity to criticise.
Monsanto an other biotech companies got caught short in the 1990s. But since then, the GM argument has been moving in their direction.
Germany has been a world leader in taking in refugees, but a xenophobic outcry at a wave of sexual assaults puts the government in a tight spot.
Argentina’s right-wing press wants an end to “revenge” for crimes committed under the old dictatorship. But revenge and justice aren’t the same thing.
New research shows that the government’s welfare proposal is out of step with reality.
With parliamentary elections around the corner, Iran’s deep political conflicts are suddenly on full display.