Factfile - Space
The global satellite communications market is expected to be worth more than £140 billion per year by 2010. The global satellite navigation market is expected to exceed £50 billion by 2005. - British...
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Factfile - Human rights
Women and girls make up more than two-thirds of the world's illiterate population. - UNFPA, The State of the World Population 1999 Some 350 million women in developing countries have incomplete or...
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Factfile - Health
Nearly a billion people worldwide do not get enough to eat each day. At the same time, an estimated 600 million people - mostly in North America and Europe - are overnourished and overweight. - World...
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Factfile - Work and community
Fewer than 400 billionaires hold assets that equal the cumulative worth of 45 per cent of the world's population. - Gro Harlem Brundtland, Reith lectures 2000 Average global per capita income has now...
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Factfile - War
Since its peak in 1986, the size of the global nuclear arsenal has declined by 48 per cent. The US has 12,000 nuclear warheads, Russia 23,000 and France, China and the UK have only about 1,000...
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MM 2001: Moral rights, global responsibilities
The more the fight for human rights gains in popularity, the more it loses any concrete content," writes novelist Milan Kundera in Immortality. "The world has become man's right and everything in it...
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MM 2001: Death sentence for disease?
Cures for Alzheimer's, Aids and cancer are all potential prizes for geneticists. Geoff Watts spoke to some of those working at the cutting edge of research Health care has always been shaped by...
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MM 2001: Environment - Books
A Consumer's Guide to Genetically Modified Food: From Green Genes to Red Herrings By Alan McHughen Oxford University Press, £60.00 The gene is out of the test tube, warns Alan McHughen, and there is...
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TV & radio guide - Thursday
» Routes of English (9.00 am R4). "Border Talk" – the border being Offa’s Dyke. Melvyn Bragg listens to the people of Oswestry. Truman (9.15 am BBC2). Part two of presidential biography. The Civil...
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Sit, then do the ironing
Robot toys are a Christmas favourite. They are also the testing ground for sophisticated tools that will change our lives, writes Tim Cornwell. In 1997, researchers at the Massachusetts company...
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From the wellspring of disaster rise faint hopes
Efforts to provide fresh water to West Bengal and Bangladesh led to an environmental and human catastrophe. But, reports Steve Farrar, scientists are closing in on the cause of the disaster. A widow...
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Can this old house offer a new window on the world?
As Chatham House loses its director after a brief tenure, Claire Sanders considers the institute's challenges. When Chris Gamble, the first female director of the Royal Institute of International...
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Does the devil eat hot dogs?
Massimo Salani says meals cement our relationship with God. But, he tells Domenico Pacitti, he never said fast food was fit only for Protestants. An Italian theology lecturer who was catapulted...
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The poor get stuffed for Christmas
Some mature students are so poor that their children will go without presents this Christmas, according to an explosive report into student finances commissioned by the government. Lone parents, who...
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Latest international news
Mounties on trail of student loan fraudsters The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is investigating a C$2 million (£893,000) student loan fraud. One man has been arrested and more arrests are expected....