Since Brazil’s return to direct presidential elections in 1985, no candidate who finished second in the first round of polling had ever won the presidency. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, now 81, has just ...

Rapid intensification of the very severe cyclone highlights the combined influence of warmer seas and El Nino, with experts stressing the need for stronger disaster preparedness and climate-resilient ...

India has become increasingly sophisticated at counting welfare. Perhaps the next step is to count an outcome that sits behind many of those numbers but rarely appears beside them ...

With the world being ravaged by two wars being fought in the West Asia and the Russian steppes, the last week’s visit of secretary of state Marco Rubio attained a significant kosher diplomatic station ...