The world, in perspective.

News this week that a lack of funding could result in the UN's World Food Programme cutting aid to roughly half a million people in Gaza is a sobering reminder that a ceasefire is not the same as peace. Although Israel ’s assault on the territory may have slowed somewhat since last year’s truce, the dire conditions that have made life unbearable for so many

More than 16 years after the BP oil spill off the Gulf Coast, new research reveals lasting damage to marine life.