The founder of France’s far-right movement and his daughter, the current president, have had a spectacular and very public falling out.
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Post-independence Eritrea has descended into poverty and repression forcing huge numbers to flee to safety and a better life.
A minority Labour administration might govern the UK despite finishing runner-up in both England and Scotland.
How the royal propaganda machine tries to make hereditary millionaires seem just like the rest of us.
The life of a princess has traditionally not been pleasant.
Provocative, violent and discriminatory policing has sparked riots in both the UK and America.
For a man who likes to be called ‘outstanding leader’ and ‘brilliant comrade’, Kim Jong-un is strangely unwilling to strut his stuff on the world stage.
Whatever you think of capital punishment, if your police force helps convict people of capital crimes, you are complicit to some degree.
Time for politicians to get honest about crime statistics.
It’s in the public interest to allow families to pay ransoms for the return of their loved ones.
The US government prefers to remember the Vietnam War with a sanitised official account – and to overlook the suffering that still goes on today.
Racial segregation and poisonous living conditions played a large part in determining the young man’s fate.
The long-feared earthquake arrives in the middle of post-conflict reconstruction and a seven-year wait for a new constitution.
Better handling of peaceful protests at the death of Freddie Gray might have prevented the riots.
Despite having a black police commissioner and mayor, Baltimore has become the latest focus of African-American anger at racist policing.
America’s highest court is hearing arguments on gay marriage for what could be the last time. But both camps claim to have common sense on their side.
A group of 17 million voters is being ignored by the main parties. Why might that be?
Everyone learns about the French resistance but what about the freedom fighters across the Alps?
The main parties are still a long way from getting full marks when it comes to tackling women’s financial disadvantages.
The proposed response to the Mediterranean migrant crisis could well do more harm than good.
A century on, the murder of 1.5m Armenians by the Ottoman Empire must be recognised as genocide.
It remains to be seen whether the EU’s narrow approach can prevent further deaths in the Mediterranean.
This is not about people smuggling, it’s about a displacement crisis of unprecedented proportions.
Mainstream politicians see no benefit in playing to English identity. They’re missing a trick.
Syriza came to power promising to renegotiate Greece’s relationship with the EU. The fallout of their attempts to do so is a lesson for a UK that would try to do the same.