Greece is running out of money fast, and is even trying to weasel out of upcoming payments to the IMF. Yet, at the same time, it’s negotiating with Russia to buy S-300 missiles.

During his annual call-in show, Vladimir Putin predicted that Russia’s economy will recover in less than two years. Place your bets now, folks.

The former head of Britain’s National Health Service Sir David Nicholson warns that “managed decline” could be coming to British health care—and emergency action will be needed to shore up its finances.

Scientists are tripping over themselves trying to explain the slowdown in global warming. So much for “settled science”.

Objecting to “the economic disruption of the digital age?” Good luck with that.

The problem with President Obama’s unprecedented “hands-off” policy for the Middle East.

Eastern Ukraine looks set for another round of serious fighting.

Japanese citizens won a court ruling stopping two nuclear reactors from restarting. The island nation has few good energy options.

As bad as the nuclear negotiations seem, things are actually turning out well—or at least as well as could have been expected in a genuinely terrible and terrifying situation.

If you understand Turkish politics, you won’t be surprised by Ahmet Davutoğlu’s latest paranoid outburst.