Our key facts on the Kyoto Protocol and its supposed impact on the environment.

What is life like for a carpet knotting kid in Nepal — and how can the carpet industry stay clean?

What will India look like four decades hence? Poorer? Richer? A world superpower? A nobody?

How can the IMF best avoid becoming a scapegoat in every financial crisis?

Will Silvio Berlusconi’s government push Italy’s integration into the global economy?

How long will it take for the world to catch up with impressive U.S. economic growth?

What is China doing to prepare for the 2008 Beijing Games?

Remember the last time before the 2001 G8 Summit when the world’s major powers met in Genoa, Italy? You need to go all the way back to the year 1922. Instead of anti-globalization protesters, the unpleasant surprise of that summit was a special deal concluded between the newly created Soviet Union and Weimar Germany. World diplomacy was rocked harder than even the disruptions by today’s protesters.

How did traditional Congolese ways of life exist alongside the harsher reality of colonialism?

Should the world be concerned over the fall of the euro?