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Six years ago, the world was brought to its knees by the collapse of a particular financial market that was not understood by most of those trading in it, let [...]

By 2015, we will have nearly eradicated extreme poverty and hanger throughout the world by halving the proportion of people living on under $1.25 per day. We will have achieved [...]

Few intergovernmental organizations which exist solely to further the values of democracy, liberal equality, good governance, and minority rights can boast a membership of 53 countries from every single continent, [...]

Seventeen months after the guns fell silent in Berlin, Winston Churchill proposed a 'United States of Europe' to promote peace and well-being. The European people, devastated by war, embraced the [...]

At the turn of the millennium, the world united in a set of pledges to ensure that the most basic needs of every one of its inhabitants could be met. [...]

On September 29, 2014, the United Kingdom's GDP rose by US$17.8 billion, or 0.7 percent, overnight. Four days earlier, it had been announced that Spain's GDP had risen by US$12.5 [...]

Not until 1908 or 1909 would humans even reach the North Pole, an accomplishment today usually credited to either Frederick Albert Cook or Rear Admiral Robert Peary and a team [...]

If recent century-long trends in social history can be defined by the slow dissolution of the barriers of prejudice and ignorance that have divided the people of this world--whether by [...]