With 200,000 dead and 7 million displaced in Syria, with refugees flooding into Europe, it was hard to imagine that the situation in the country could get much worse.

Russia and Europe tried to form a partnership but they did a poor job of listening to each other's needs, writes James Nixey.

In the world of cosmology, the latest scientific evidence has revealed that 85 percent of the universe is made up of dark matter. We can't see it, but it is definitely there. ...

If Western leaders can find some collective backbone, they ought to be able to put an unusual degree of pressure on Russia.

Dear Prime Minister Cameron, During your recent visit to Moscow you claimed that you would like to take on the skeptics of the Russian-British relationship. I would like to accept that challenge.