Crises often prove to be the crucible in which hope is created. Following the financial crisis that hit Western markets during 2008-9, Cambridge City Council in the UK took control of a f...
In January 2024, the world’s largest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, will reach her new home in Miami, Florida. At 1,200 feet long and a quarter of a million tons in weight, with seven swi...
Did you know that an ox’s fingerprint is on its snout? A new Brazil-based start-up, Databoi, has created a smartphone app that generates a unique digital identity for every head of cattle...
Imagine you’re getting ready for a night out at an Italian restaurant. You may shower and wash your hair, roll on deodorant and pop on some lipstick. You share a lovely evening over pizza...
The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and the destruction of biodiversity all require our attention in 2021. Do businesses have a role to play in tackling these global challenges and if s...
As the third decade of the 21st century gets under way, we will look back on 2021 as a year when the future of our life on earth balanced on a fulcrum. But which way will we lean? Will we...
A cartoon from The New Yorker magazine last November depicts a caveman and cavewoman crouched in the opening of their dark cave. The woman is hard at work rubbing sticks to make fire whil...
Children born in 2007 will most likely live to 100 or more. Today’s medicines can delay strokes and heart disease by decades. This trend, however, will play havoc with working lives, pens...
Profit shifting by multinationals is costing countries an estimated $240 billion in lost tax revenues annually, according to the OECD. The organization’s Global Forum on Transparency and ...
What’s the best way to build tolerant, multicultural societies? It might seem perverse to suggest that we should trumpet what we have in common, rather than understanding our differences....
Today’s millennials are more purpose-driven than their parents’ generation and their consumption patterns will reward corporate good behaviour, argued business leaders gathered in Davos t...
The global oil industry is coming under pressure from advances in technology and government policies reacting to climate change – but don’t write off fossil fuels just yet. Oil demand wil...
Today is a crucial day for Britain, as Prime Minister David Cameron meets European Union officials to discuss the country's EU membership. With little agreement on any of the UK's four ai...
