Last year saw Pirelli return to Formula One as the sole-supplier for the series. The challenge was to supply the grid with tires in roughly nine month...

The London 2012 Olympic countdown has begun with the 9 January marking 200 days till the games begin. Preparations are flying full steam ahead for ...

2011 provided us with a mix of hope and despair. One Tunisian young man, Mohamed Bouazizi, set in motion the Arab Spring when he set himself on fire f...

No, the world won't end in 2012. In fact, it's more likely that we're just getting started. The global ecological movement is gaining traction. People are waking up and taking to the streets to demand their human birthrights of justice and fairness.

There is much to celebrate in child protection from 2011, but we need a radical rethink if we are to make a real difference in 2012. This has been a year of significant change in child protection, much of it for the better. And it was also the year that saw ChildLine celebrate 25 years of helping vulnerable children. Over a quarter of a century it has helped 2.6 million young people since it was launched by Esther Rantzen... But sadly, serious abuse and neglect still occur. On average around 50 children are killed each year in England and Wales, most by those that were supposed to love and protect them.

Since its creation, the USA has been involved in 13 major conflicts and dozens of minor ones resulting in 1.35 million military deaths. Yet most have one thing in common, they didn't occur because of perceived threats to national security or survival.