After a year on the skids and a cash injection of £200m by its creditors, the grandee of the travel industry, Thomas Cook, has been saved - for now. It marks a sad decline for an honourable brand.

Thomas Cook is both one of Britain's best known brands and the...

Renewed focus on the relationship between business, the consumer and water consumption emerged again last week in Stockholm at the annual World Water Week.

Awareness of our individual carbon footprints has steadily grown as we have come to realise in recent years that our behaviours are impacting the environment in...

Another week and another development in the unfolding drama in the Middle East. King Abdullah of Jordan has followed the lead of King Hassan of Morocco in announcing a range of constitutional reforms which, ultimately, will reduce the King's political powers - but by no means curtail them.

The genesis...

50 years ago this week construction began on the Berlin Wall. The wall came to symbolise the rigid divisions in ideology between Western and Eastern Europe and the brutal, uncompromising authoritarianism which held sway from Rostock to Vladivostok. Churchill's term 'the Iron Curtain' found no greater expression than the wall...

Last month, William Hague sprung a surprise visit to the independence celebrations of South Sudan in Juba, joining a host of international dignitaries and celebrities. While the prospects for Africa's 54th nation look decidedly mixed, optimism remains high; the same optimism that has delivered a political settlement to a country...

Next week sees the return to our screens of the BBC's hit show Who Do You Think You Are? Now in its eighth series, the concept is simple but absorbing; it follows a celebrity on a journey to trace their family tree. Inevitably it throws up ancestral tales which are...

One of the consequences of the humbling of NewsCorp is the probing light it shines on corporate governance. There is much that board-level directors should learn from the News International fiasco because, above all, this is an issue of corporate governance and ethics which emanate from the top of an...