The 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing. The games are threatened by corona outbreaks and by a diplomatic boycott of several countries because of China’s continuing human rights violations.

Tennis player Novak Djokovic has had his visa to enter Australia revoked on his arrival in Melbourne, amid a huge backlash over a vaccine exemption.

Boris Johnson attended and organized several parties at Downing Street 10 during the lockdown. He is now facing calls from senior Tories to stand down as prime minister.

A collection of cartoons about the acquisition of consumer goods and material wealth.

Large-scale popular unrest in Kazakhstan this week has lead to deadly clashes between protesters and state forces. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has called for the help of Russian troops to end the protests.

Five of world’s most powerful nations pledge to avoid nuclear war.

Wishing you all the best for the coming year!

Technology can be seen as the cornerstone of our civilization. Indeed, many regard technology as one of the defining elements of human progress. But like everything, technological innovations have a downside: new technology can have a profound (and negative) impact on the environment, on the way we behave and on society as a whole.

The history of the Catholic Church has always been rich in controversy and scandal. As a political force, the church is a powerful and intrinsically undemocratic institution with a fair amount of influence in international politics; as a religious institution, it continues to influence the lives of millions of people on a daily basis.

Every year we dump a massive 2.12 billion tons of waste. 99 percent of the stuff we buy is trashed within 6 months.

Social media have a profound impact on our lives. They have not only changed how we communicate and how we interact, they also play an ever-increasing role in politics. On the downside, spreading fake news can be used to manipulate elections, and authoritarian regimes are increasingly embracing social media as a way to control and monitor people. On the upside, social media has allowed popular uprisings to spread further and faster than ever.

Yet another variant of concern has emerged. The newest mutation of the coronavirus is named Omicron.

Black Friday is an informal name for the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, marking the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.

We are becoming more and more dependent on digital technology. Can we still live without?

Thousands of people are stranded at the border with Poland, enduring freezing conditions in the hope of crossing into the EU, caught in a political game between Belarus and Europe.