How Russia Could Escalate

In the Sahel countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, military rulers are increasingly clamping down on press freedom and freedom of expression. Many journalists, bloggers and activists have been forced into exile.

Curacao is the smallest nation ever to qualify for a World Cup. The Caribbean island is abuzz ahead of their first match on football's biggest stage – against four-time champions Germany.

William Hilderbrandt is pleased to welcome Camille Le Coz. Director of the Migration Policy Institute of Europe. The implementation of the EU's new Migration and Asylum Pact marks the beginning of a critical experiment in collective migration governance. After more than a decade of negotiations, the pact seeks to reconcile competing imperatives: strengthening border management, accelerating asylum procedures, ensuring greater coordination among member states, and rebuilding trust within a fragme

His career spanned London's swinging '60s, the counter-culture of 1970s Los Angeles and the bucolic calm of springtime in Normandy. David Hockney was a master painter of portraits and landscapes, injecting riotous colour into canvases that hang in collections from New York to Tokyo. We take a look back at the career of the British artist following his death at 88 years old.