On Monday night, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will take part in the first presidential debate. The confrontation comes at a time when the polls are showing a tightening race. And depending on who ...

Across cultures and continents, women champion democracy and tyrants target them as part of their playbook for amassing power. Failure to treat the repression of women as the crisis it is all but ...

Bernadette Chirac, who has died aged 93, stood by her late husband and French president Jacques Chirac through thick and thin ...