Over the past forty-five years the United States has experienced deepening economic divisions between the rich and poor. The ...

We know that real wars, including civil wars, continued on the periphery of the world ... organizations survived in many countries, though in clandestinity or semi-clandestinity, and always ...

That experience will inform remembrance of liberation from Nazi Germany, which is marked by several countries in the region on May ... the Balkans are now once more an impoverished semi-periphery, ...

Russia is the largest country in the world by landmass, but within its vast borders lie unique geopolitical and historical ...

It’s officially Eurovision week, and ahead of the Grand Final on Saturday 17 May, fans have the chance to see all 37 countries performing in the semi-finals. Protests have been taking place over ...

Five countries have already crashed out of this year's Eurovision Song Contest, as 15 became 10 after Tuesday night's first semi final. As this year's Eurovision got going, the eyes of the world fell ...

Before the main event can go ahead, however, there's the small matter of deciding which lucky 20 countries will be joining the "big five" in the grand final next weekend. The semi-final of this year's ...

The first semi-final of the contest, taking place in Basle, Switzerland, where the competition began in Lugano in 1956, also saw Estonia’s Tommy Cash with the silly Espresso Macchiato ...

For 20 years now at Eurovision, rather than there just being a fight for victory in the grand final, there have been semi final knockouts to whittle down the number of countries in the running.