Switzerland’s economy is booming at the moment, and unemployment is low, but many Swiss worry about what they see as… Read More →

The Winter Olympic Games open in Sochi this Friday, but any expectation that there would by now be a rising… Read More →

For a man who trained as a physician at the university of Damascus and who spent two years in post… Read More →

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On the BBC news website in a move eerily reminiscent of Laura Ashley and John Lewis (see 28 March blog),… Read More →