Japan hosts its first arms show, ever. But the public has not yet lined up behind Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s attempts to overcome decades of institutionalized pacifism.

Recent humanitarian tragedies in Africa show that immigration isn’t just an American or European issue, but a global one.

The continent of Europe is doing what continents do best—drifting. Into whatever catastrophe emerges from the Greek negotiations, that is.

The Chinese President is in Islamabad, inking infrastructure investment deals worth billions of dollars. Will China succeed where the U.S. has failed?

Chicago’s public school system has a serious cash-flow problem. Will Chicago be the next Detroit?

Europeans are floating plans that are unlikely to be adopted, and President Obama is beseeching Gulf states to save Libya. The lack of planning for what would follow Qaddafi’s ouster on the part of Western leaders has been hard to understand.

The German Finance Minister let a Washington crowd know exactly what he thought.

A European satellite is helping researchers find geothermal hotspots—an enormous but underutilized green energy source.

There’s something fishy about my beef bourguignon…

Are we looking at the first steps towards a direct shooting war between Iran and Saudi Arabia?