It isn’t easy being a girl, especially in Africa.


In the shade of trees on the side of a road at Rutongo, a tin mine in sight of Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, groups of women sit with hammers in han

In 2017 Artificial Intelligence (AI) will redefine the possibilities of research and academia. Some doomsayers assume that most human employees w

Five centuries since Martin Luther’s clash with Rome, Europe faces division once more as intolerance and religious upheaval make a comeback

Governments are starting to act on pollution-cutting pledges but now business must catch up

In 2017 expect to see companies take action to make sure more females occupy powerful positions

Will you ever fall in love with your thermostat?

Early one Sunday morning, half a century ago, Sweden’s motorists pulled off a deft manoeuvre.

An ambitious project will start in 2017 designed to track from space the movement and behaviour of animals, large and small, anywhere they travel