What are the Most Corrupt Countries in Latin America?
MEDELLÍN, Colombia, Feb 17 (IPS) – Latin American countries scored poorly on Transparency International’s latest corruption index, with the worst joining the ranks of...
The New World Wonder: a 100 Million Hectares Wall to Protect Africa
MADRID, Feb 17 (IPS) – Once completed in 2030, it could well be considered the world’s eighth wonder, this time natural. It is the...
How lizards keep detachable tails from falling off
Lizards are famous for losing their tails, but perhaps the bigger question should be: How do their tails stay on? The answer may lie...
A technique borrowed from ecology hints at hundreds of lost medieval legends
King Arthur’s lasting renown is one for the books. But a statistical spotlight now shines on medieval European literature’s round table of lost and...
The Weaponisation of Libyas Elections
TRIPOLI, Libia, Feb 17 (IPS) – Libya was supposed to hold elections early this year. Instead, it now has two rival political administrations —...
International Accreditation in Education Can Bring Huge Benefits to the Pacific- If It Is Done Right
International Accreditation in Education Can Bring Huge Benefits to the Pacific- If It Is Done Right
SUVA, Fiji, Feb 17 (IPS) – All over the world, students who attend tertiary education do so with the belief that the investment of...
Artificial intelligence challenges what it means to be creative
When British artist Harold Cohen met his first computer in 1968, he wondered if the machine might help solve a mystery that had long...
Counter-terrorism, Afghanistan, top priorities for UN cooperation with Eurasian security body
Conflict prevention, counter-terrorism and support to Afghanistan, top the list of issues on which the UN and the Collective Security Treaty Organization – a Eurasian regional...
Africa’s Sahel region facing ‘horrendous food crisis’
As the Sahel region “stares down a horrendous food crisis”, the UN emergency food relief chief warned on Wednesday that the number of people...
Haiti at ‘crossroads’ entering post-earthquake reconstruction
Haiti is once more at a ‘crossroads’, six months after a devastating earthquake hit the south-west of the country, according to the UN Deputy...
Sudan: The harrowing reality of giving birth in a war zone 
How a brutal drought may have helped unleash yellow fever in Brazil 
A light-based scan could detect deadly bowel disease in preterm babies 
Colombia quake: In Cali’s ruins, an ‘overwhelming sense of humanity’