A giant container ship remains stuck across Egypt's Suez Canal. The Ever Given has been wedged in the canal - one of the world's busiest trade routes - since Tuesday, March 23.

Although oil reserves will run out eventually, and sustainable energy sources are on the rise, this black substance will be with us for some time to come, driving our economies as well as driving conflict, geopolitics and, lest we forget, natural disasters.

A new Cold War?

We are depleting the earth’s resources faster than they can be replenished.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) says there is no indication the AstraZeneca vaccine causes blood clots, but more and more countries have decided to put this vaccine on hold.

On March 15, 2011, protesters inspired by successful "Arab Spring" uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, rallied in Syria to call for an end to their own repressive regime. Assad responded with violence, and Syria has since fallen prey to a seemingly endless civil war. Our cartoonists mark the sad 10th anniversary of the conflict.

Power and corruption go hand in hand.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry versus the British Crown.

Jair Bolsonaro, in cartoons.

The world has been transformed since the Industrial Revolution, but has it become a better place?

An independent international report says there's enough evidence that China is carrying out genocide, intent on destroying the Uyghur people.

Pope Francis flies to Iraq for the first ever papal visit to the country.

Former French president Sarkozy is found guilty of corruption and influence peddling and sentenced to three years in prison, two of them suspended.

The US has carried out an air strike targeting Iran-backed militias in Syria, in the first military action undertaken by the Biden administration.

The US intelligence report on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi says that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman approved the operation to capture or kill the Saudi journalist.