One thing that parents and their children have in common is that they are both on a learning curve.

I had never felt deeply challenged by these little moments of what can only be called dishonesty.

Housing is about people-not just bricks, maintains a trail-blazing housing non-profit organization in Richmond, Virginia. Mary Lean discovers how giving people the best can transform no-go areas.

Corruption is bad for business, says Suresh Vazirani, Managing Director of an award-winning hi-tech company. He talks to Michael Smith.

UNESCO is often criticized for its lack of efficiency, for the fact that too big a slice of the budget goes to the Paris Secretariat. Yes, it is a mammoth institution-but it has undoubtedly been allotted a mammoth task, a task that is perhaps of greater importance today then ever before.

Men today behave as if they’re dispensable, maintains Tim Muirhead - but they’re not.

Poland’s decision to join the European Union has been a subject of hot debate in schools and universities,writes Joanna Margueritte.

Pam McGibbon, then 46, was living in Scotland, where she and her husband ran a company organizing exhibitions.

In New York Melinda Lackey and Carlos Monteagudo are charting a vision to create widespread economic well-being in this incredibly diverse, powerful and poverty-stricken city.

Every summer Edinburgh becomes a mecca for artists from all over the world thanks to the Fringe and International arts festivals.

Gajanan Sawant tells Bhanu Kale how deciding not to accept poverty led to the transformation of his community.

Neichu Angami describes a young man's fight against addiction and his campaign to help HIV/Aids sufferers.

To Mubarek Awad, the inside of an Israeli jail cell was nothing new. He’d been in many.

Kenneth Noble looks at a charity which is rehousing poor people worldwide,and discovers that it has launched a most unusual 'theme park'.

Yana Bey encounters heartbreak and triumph as a team of Indian women conquer Argan Kangri, an unclimbed peak in the Karakoram Range.

The South Pacific island nation of Fiji has experienced three coups d’etat since 1987.

In October the United Nations reached agreement on a groundbreaking Convention Against Corruption. 9 December has been proposed as a new annual International Anti-Corruption Day.

We sailed on the maiden voyage of the ill-fated Estonia, which sank in a storm in 1994 taking more than 800 souls with her, a tragedy that united Estonia and Sweden in grief.