How to stop the world's 3.1 billion young people being left behind

Aug 11, 2016 09:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

There are more young people in the world than ever before. While some see the planets 3.1 billion under 25-year-olds as a threat, others see the true potential of this demographic dividend. On International Youth Day on...

Why time seems to go by more quickly as we get older

Aug 10, 2016 15:46 pm UTC| Science Life

When we were children, the summer holidays seemed to last forever, and the wait between Christmases felt like an eternity. So why is that when we get older, the time just seems to zip by, with weeks, months and entire...

A tale of three surprisingly different street gangs around the world

Aug 10, 2016 15:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life Law

It can sometimes seem like there are gangs everywhere you look. At the Rio Olympics, fears of gang-related violence have resulted in intensive security much as in London four years ago. In Brussels, gang rivalries are the...

Anger at violence against women in Peru spills over into protest

Aug 10, 2016 14:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

For many women in Peru, violence is a part of life. Daily harassment on the streets, sexual abuse of minors, trafficking of women and girls, and the sexual, physical, emotional, and economic abuse of women in their own...

The Middle East needs help with its long game: education and jobs for the young

Aug 09, 2016 09:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

The future for many young people across the Middle East and North Africa looks bleak. The World Bank records that 54% of the working age population in the Middle East and North Africa is unemployed with little prospect of...

Migrant Crisis Series

Record high global migration may give new meaning to 'diaspora'

Aug 08, 2016 04:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

Groups of human beings have always moved or migrated from one geographic location to another. This phenomenon continues in the 21st century and is driven by national and international wars, globalization of local and...

Road rage: why normal people become harmful on the roads

Aug 06, 2016 09:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

Anger can be very quick, powerful, reactive, and can make us do things we typically wouldnt do. There is nothing inherently wrong with anger as an emotion, but nowhere is anger less helpful, more common, and potentially...