Justin Trudeau is under fire for trying to sway his former justice minister to settle a bribery case. SNC-Lavalin, the accused company, employs about 9,000 Canadians, and Trudeau stated it was his responsibility to protect jobs.

A Twitter spat between Labour MP David Lammy and BBC documentary-maker Stacey Dooley has sparked debate around how Western charities appeal for impoverished countries.

Facebook has taken down the Instagram and Facebook pages of far-right anti-immigrant activist Tommy Robinson, following in the footsteps of YouTube and Twitter. But can engaging hateful users help foster dialogue?

Letting children aged 15, 16, and 17 join the army affects their mental and physical wellbeing. Yet countries like Britain and Russia, Zambia and Bolivia, all recruit 16-year-olds. Should military recruitment ages match the age of legal adulthood?

Periods, female genital mutilation, consent and internet safety are some of the topics Britain’s new sex ed classes will soon cover. But parliament must now debate a petition signed by over 106,000 people & claiming the guidelines will do ‘more harm than good’.

Senior police leaders back the use of positive discrimination to boost diversity among officers. But affirmative action is a contentious practice. Why? And can it make Britain's police force more representative?

Nest home security systems have built-in microphones, and users aren’t happy that they’re only finding out now. Should companies be obliged to list a product’s full specifications? And what are the ethical implications of default-enabling features like mics?

If Bernie Sanders were elected US president in 2020, he would be 83 years old by the term’s end. This isn’t unusual: some heads of state worldwide are well into their 90s. But is it time for a maximum presidential age?

Rural, low-caste, neo-literate women — all of them full-time reporters. This is the extraordinary story of how one news outlet broke the path for both feminism and local journalism in small-town India. Now, Khabar Lahariya is gearing up to enter the fight against misinformation.

France’s Fencing Federation recognised lightsaber duelling as an official sport. The decision revives a perennial question: what constitutes a sport? And who decides? For decades, the secretive Olympic Committee has been kingmaker. Is that about to change?

NASA found that spending time in space can alter gene expression, hyperactivate the immune system, and boost DNA repair. But as space mining becomes the new Wild West, and Mars its far frontier, what toll might space travel take on humans?

Shamima Begum, a British teenager who joined ISIS aged 15, now wants to return. Her family says she was a child who made a mistake, but public opinion is divided. Should IS recruits be repatriated or repudiated? And if they return, how should we proceed?

Top polluters China and India are leading the planet’s greening. Worldwide, enough leafy land has grown in the last twenty years to cover an area as big as the Amazon. So why isn’t that purely good news?

As NATO defence ministers gather in Brussels, uncertainty about the military alliance’s usefulness is growing. Critics point to NATO’s own blunders, as well as unpunished abuses by non-NATO states. How justified are these doubts?

Russia will soon disconnect its internet to test a new cybersecurity law. The law will force all data transfers through state-controlled routers, and build a separate, domestic internet address book. What does it mean if the internet’s “inter”(connected) nature really can be suspended at will?