World Happy days: the benefits of making lessons fun The concept that people learn better when they are enjoying themselves is increasingly accepted and many teachers now use fun activities as a way of 25/04/2014
World Portugal's Carnation hope overpowered by austerity bitterness Forty years after the Carnation Revolution freed Portugal from dictatorship, many Portuguese are in a different sort of straight jacket today 25/04/2014
My Europe Series EU's great eastward expansion 10 years on A decade ago the EU took a great leap forward, or rather eastward, when ten mostly former Soviet countries joined the Union. That’s the question 25/04/2014
Unreported Europe Verhofstadt's liberal recipe for Europe For the first time in the European elections political groups have put forward candidates for the presidency of the European Commission. The choice 25/04/2014
Next Series Comet Hunters: 'Let's do some science' Rosetta is now under four million kilometres from its target comet, and closing fast. At ESA’s base in the Netherlands mission scientists Matt Taylor 25/04/2014
USA Proposed changes to ‘net neutrality’ rules have sparked debate in the US A new Internet traffic management proposal intending to allow big content providers to pay for ‘fast lanes’ for the delivery of their traffic to net 25/04/2014
