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People enjoy the day at a ski hill prepared with artificial snow in Ruhpolding, southern Germany. Temperatures in southern Germany, are unusually high. Read More »

Flamingos stand in the flamingo pool, home to both the Caribbean and Chilean flamingos, at the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore. Read More »

In 2009, every man, woman and child in Pakistan was indebted to the tune of Rs46,000. In 2011, every man, woman and child in Pakistan was indebted to the tune of Rs61,000. As of the last day of 2013, every Pakistani man, woman and child carried a debt burden of Rs100,000. Lo and behold, between June 2013 and September 2013, ... Read More »

Reading about the two Great Wars of the last century and the staggering scale of casualties, one wonders how the world could have allowed human slaughter at such an epic scale to go on for so long. The combined toll of the two World Wars exceeded a horrific hundred million. Millions more died later – of injuries, disease and hunger. ... Read More »

Everything from terrorism to food insecurity has been labelled as a threat to democracy and stability at one time or another. Inequality between the rich and poor has always been near the top of this list and this point has been reiterated in a report released by Oxfam during the proceedings of the World Economic Forum. It is a staggering ... Read More »

The longer the legacy of the 2008-2009 crisis continues to bite, the greater the opportunities could be for the centre left to benefit US President Barack Obama will use his State-of-the-Union address on Tuesday to make economic inequality central to his agenda for 2014. Fifty years on, from Lyndon Johnson’s ‘war on poverty’, the White House believes this core fairness ... Read More »

Batura Glacier, 57 kilometres (35 mi) long, is one of the largest and longest glaciers outside the polar regions.[1] It lies in Batura Valley Passu in the Gojal region of the Gilgit-Baltistan of Pakistan. It is just north of the massifs of Batura, at 7,795 metres (25,574 ft), and Passu, at 7,500 metres (24,600 ft). It flows west to east. ... Read More »