India's battle of the babies
India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous country within about a decade despite years of efforts to bring down the birth rate. But right-wing religious leaders, worried about the ero...
22 Jan 20156min
Mysterious death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman
An Argentine prosecutor who had accused the government of a cover-up in relation to a terrorist attack on a Jewish community centre 20 years ago has been found dead a day before he was due to explain ...
19 Jan 20155min
Amazon comes out of the Netflix shadow
Amazon won its first Golden Globes on Sunday for Transparent, and laterannounced it had commissioned Woody Allen to produce a seriesexclusively for its Prime Instant Video streaming service. Henry Man...
15 Jan 20155min
Iranians feel the weight of sanctions
As negotiations on Iran's nuclear programme resume this week, Najmeh Bozorgmehr talks to Iranians about their hopes for an easing of the economic embargo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...
15 Jan 20154min
Germany's new anti-Islamist group
A few months ago, no-one had heard of Pegida but this week the German group, which stands for Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West, mustered 25,000 supporters in the city of Dresde...
14 Jan 20156min
Israel and Palestinians clash over International Criminal Court
The peace process between Israel and the Palestinians is already close to death and now a fresh disagreement has arisen over a decision by the Palestinians to apply to join the International Criminal ...
12 Jan 20157min
Don't sneer at Zuck's 'Year of Books': the Romans would have loved it
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has declared 2015 "A year of Books", in which he and thousands of followers will read a nominated title every two weeks. The Romans would have loved it, says Andrew Hi...
8 Jan 20152min
New antibiotic could help avert looming health crisis
The discovery of a new antibiotic has brought fresh hope that a looming health crisis caused by drug resistant infections can be avoided. Called teixobactin, it is the result of a private public coll...
7 Jan 20156min
