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Oscars 2018: Inclusivity riders a start but change must come from ground up

For real, long-lasting transformation, changes need to be implemented at the ground level

Why China won't let people compare Xi Jinping with an imperial predecessor

One of the top ten banned terms on Chinese social media is a name: Yuan Shikai, the first president of the Republic of China.

How #MeToo is battling sexual oppression, breaking caste barriers in India

What is unique about this movement is that it is a multilayered struggle

Mark Zuckerberg's apology is the linguistic equivalent of 'shit happens'

This week, two high profile CEOs have issued public apologies on behalf of their corporations

Debt bomb and shadow banking: What China's new central bank governor faces

A distressed financial system could trigger a systemic economic collapse in China

Why Pakistan has troops in Saudi Arabia - and what it means for Middle East

The two countries' close ties were tested in 2015 when the Pakistani parliament unanimously rejected a Saudi request for Pakistani troops to support its Yemen campaign

How vaccination is helping to prevent another flu pandemic

Flu vaccines lessen the likelihood of getting the flu and its severit

Brits 2018: Why everyone loves Ed Sheeran's Shape of You

Shape Of You was made for this with its textural and dynamic changes, its distinctive elements combined and held within the bounds of a simple chord progression

Airplane crash investigations can improve cybersecurity. Here's how

Additional measures would likely be required to make a cybersecurity safety board successful, such as launching investigations only for serious breaches like those involving critical infrastructure

Billy Graham, the evangelical minister dead at 99: How is legacy lives on

The prevalence of religious language in US politics that Graham helped inspire continues to this day. Indeed, the Trump administration has been particularly swift to employ it

Trump's protectionism continues long history of US rejection of free trade

The fact is the US has never been a truly free trade country - one with virtually no barriers to trade with other nations - as some people seem to think

Korea's 1st unified Olympic team is an uneasy truce of diplomacy and sexism

As the XXIII Winter Olympics begin, could the joint team seriously be a starting point for unification after the games?

Maldives crisis: A bitter religious divide has come to the fore

After the country's supreme court ordered the release of nine jailed opposition politicians at the start of February, the Maldivian president Abdulla Yameen declared a 15-day state of emergency

Your mobile phone can give away your location, even if you tell it not to

Measuring how a phone moves when its owner is walking could suggest how old a person is, whether they are male

Trump's war on regulations will help big business and victimise consumers

An agency established to protect consumers may be more eager to protect predatory lenders than consumers. And that is no joke

Global sell-off: Why stock markets crash - lessons from recent history

If a crash is unrelated to the economic fundamentals, it will quickly be corrected

Despite fiery speech, Trump fails to make US State of the Union watchable

Speeches are a crucial vehicle for forging this delicate, emotional bond between the president and the people

5 tips to ensure your supermarket is listening to you on Facebook, Twitter

There are countless posts vying for attention in the virtual world of social media, so you need to carve out a unique voice

Fear and fretting at Davos: The political elite grapple with inequality

For Wall Street executives, pay is often unmoored to actual performance, yet they earn 271 times more than their workers

Will Trump survive 2018 in office? An expert crunches the numbers

Of the 57 US presidential terms served prior to Trump, only nine ended prematurely, meaning 84% of terms were fulfilled