The East European movements at Lab-Left emerged against the odds. On the one hand, the shadow of the Soviet bloc still looms ...

Following the Glasgow Climate Pact, the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels still has a pulse, argue Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin – but only just.

Nick Dowson explores options for monitoring people in the interest of public health while respecting their privacy.

A small NGO is trying to link local communities and international networks to help Rio’s worse-off neighbourhoods, Ann Deslandes reports.

From buses to mosques, Muammar Gaddafi’s presence is hard to escape in Sierra Leone.

As Colombia prepares to hold a referendum on the historic peace deal, Kimberley Brown takes us inside the rebels’ preparations.

Louisa Reynolds on a country of great inequality still struggling with a legacy of civil war.

Jamal Osman reports on the rise of the new humanitarians in Somalia.

Is it the world’s biggest corruption scandal? By Vanessa Baird.

Ayatollah Khomeini’s grandsons supporting the reformers? Demonstrations in the holy city of Qom? This is a new generation of resistance, as Nasrin Alavi shows in her latest survey of the Iranian ...

The situation in Bangladesh remains tense in the run up to Independence Day on 26 March, writes Rahnuma Ahmed.

Young delegates inside the Paris climate summit were frustrated that the media were ignoring key issues. So yesterday, they took matters into their own hands, Morgan Curtis reports.