The International Court of Justice ruling that countries have a legal duty to curb climate change was the result of a years-long campaign that began with university students.

As the Labour leadership tries to shut down debate over the nature of racism, Kevin Ovenden looks at how ruling classes have long sought absolve themselves from blame   The Canadian state in the 1970s ...

Napoleon Bonaparte was the first emperor of France and one of the world's most significant military leaders, but at a price.

The world’s oldest president, Cameroon’s Paul Biya, is running for yet another term. Biya’s autocratic rule stems directly from a brutal colonial war France waged in the 1950s and ’60s while keeping ...

While the Crown Colony of Ceylon morphed into a British Dominion with pageantry and pomp for its bemused natives on February 14, 1948, the violent birth of the state of Israel followed exactly three ...