Politics is in every disaster.

Last week, the collapse of the Rana Plaza, a garment factory near the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, led to the deaths of more than 400 workers. With more than 1,000 still missing -- and little hope that any survivors will be found in the...

India, home to 1.2 billion people, is the world's fourth largest economy. By 2050, it could move into third place. The Harper government has taken notice.

Since 2010, it has been pursuing a free trade deal with India. Although a final agreement is a long way off, it will...

In August and September, a strike by South African platinum miners in the town of Marikana made international headlines after 46 people were killed. It came as no surprise, then, that news of an agreement reached between workers and Lonmin, the company which owns the platinum mines that...