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The election on 1 April gave Carlos Alvarado Quesada’s National Action Party (PAN) more than 60 per cent of the vote and makes him one of the under-40 club of victors in presidential elections (France, New Zealand and Iceland).

Anti-groping badges are becoming a popular tool in Japanese women’s fight against sexual harassment or chikan.

Dating apps are disrupting traditional customs in Nepal’s capital.

Palestinians in Gaza have been putting their lives on the line to challenge Israel’s decade long siege of the Strip.

Lea Surugue and Gisella Ligios report from the Czech Republic where Roma women who were forcibly sterilized are demanding the authorities take responsibility.

Trusted in the communities they serve, India’s women health activists are making a difference in getting help for people stigmatized for mental health problems. Yet, as Sophie Cousins reports, the challenge remains vast.

Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s autocratic hard man, is riding high, with the help of young propaganda-mongers. Lorraine Mallinder investigates a media takeover.

Ten years ago the world focused on the US foreclosure crisis as thousands lost their homes in dodgy mortgage deals. Today, the crisis is still a reality for many. Jack Crosbie reports.

With president Trump, Zhou Xiaochuan, a US official, and Christine Lagarde.

If the global financial crisis symbolized the decline of the West, it also signalled that the future belongs to China – a superpower that ‘understands’ the developing world better than the US, IMF or World Bank, according to Martin Jacques.

Clueless central banks? A trade war? Southern debt? Leading economists on where the next crisis might come from...

Yohann Koshy looks at the impending catastrophe linking the stock market to climate change.

It’s 10 years since the global financial system almost sent the world into a great depression. Yohann Koshy takes stock of what went wrong and where we are now.

Behold, America by Sarah Churchwell; Disoriental by Négar Djavadi; A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things by Raj Patel and Jason W Moore; The Empire’s New Clothes by Philip Murphy.

Remain in Light by Angélique Kidjo; Voice of Resistance by Rim Banna.