How Islamic financial markets are a safe haven in conventional market crises
Oct 23, 2017 01:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Islamic finance is enjoying a surge in popularity, with 14% annual growth in recent years. And the interest in sharia-compliant stocks and bonds is growing across the non-Muslim as well as Muslim world. My recent...
Xi Jinping sets out plans to make China great again
Oct 23, 2017 01:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
In 1793, in his letter to Britains King George III, Chinas Qianlong emperor rejected all the British requests to improve the state of trade between England and China. After all, the Middle Kingdom possesses all things in...
How oil exploration is adding to Mali's security woes
Oct 23, 2017 01:45 am UTC| Insights & Views
Mali is one of the least developed countries in the world, with nearly half the population living near the poverty line. In the past six years, the country has experienced civil war, jihadist terrorism and a coup dett....
How doctors are taught to deal with death
Oct 23, 2017 01:40 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
As a society were pretty removed from death. We dont really talk about it. Yet when medical students start their training, it suddenly becomes something theyre intimately acquainted with. So how are young doctors taught to...
Financial literacy is a public policy problem
Oct 23, 2017 01:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
As the world of finance becomes more complex, most of us arent keeping up. In this series were exploring what it means to be financially literate. Its pretty common nowadays to see the likes of the Reserve Bank of...
Is local news on the cusp of a renaissance?
Oct 23, 2017 01:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Its not an easy time to be a journalist in the United States. Since 2000, nearly half of newsroom jobs more than 20,000 of them have disappeared. Rubbing salt into the wounds, CareerCast named newspaper reporter the...
Does regulating artificial intelligence save humanity or just stifle innovation?
Oct 23, 2017 01:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Technology
Some people are afraid that heavily armed artificially intelligent robots might take over the world, enslaving humanity or perhaps exterminating us. These people, including tech-industry billionaire Elon Musk and eminent...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects