International

Waiting for the rebels

Iran's earthquake

Death in the afternoon

Qatar and Bahrain

One goes up, the other down

With a little help from their friends, two Gulf mini-states are ending their long dispute over a cluster of islets, reefs and and sandbanks. But at home the two are travelling in different directions. First, we report from Doha

Drugs in the Americas

Time for retreat?

From the archive

The green legacy

1992: Our correspondent reports from the Earth summit in Rio de Janeiro

From the archives

The United Nations: World Assembly

The UN officially came into existence on October 24th 1945. On 6th January 1946 it met for the first time, in London. The new organisation should endeavour to be a "peace-preserving organ of world society", The Economist wrote at the time