The Pew Research Center, as part of a fascinating new report on global attitudes toward homosexuality, asked people in 39 different countries a deceptively straightforward question: "Should ...

The map below lists these 10 countries, illustrating countries with shrinking populations in blue, and those with growing populations in red. The United States in growing at a moderate pace of 0. ...

Most of them are former Soviet republics: Russia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caucuses region all consistently scored poorly. Interestingly, those countries also tend to have very high ...

Asia’s vast cultural diversity is seen in its sporting preferences, as revealed in a compelling visual map by The World in ...

When Sergei Pashevich looks at the map of Central Asia, he sees a chessboard on which a replay of the Great Game is unfolding, with oil, trade and the war on terrorism as the big global issues at ...

The great projects China wanted built in Central Asia are almost all completed, the only notable exceptions being Line D of the natural-gas pipeline network running from gas fields in Turkmenistan ...

The Caucasus and Central Asia have also benefited from the hundreds of thousands of Russian emigrants, or relokanty, who have fled from their homeland.They are mostly young, educated and wealthy.