The 42nd annual meeting of the world’s top business and political leaders taking place in the Swiss alpine resort has as its theme - ‘The great transformation: shaping new models’
The EU is facing a profound split over its crisis plans for the eurozone that leave the UK isolated after David Cameron’s failure to gain safeguards for the City of London
The brutal crackdown by the Damascus regime in response to the popular revolt engulfing the country is continuing apace despite the presence of Arab League monitors
The country’s newly-elected parliament with Islamists occupying two-thirds of the seats has the task of drafting a new constitution before June’s presidential election
Newt Gingrich is back in contention for the Republican presidential nomination after a resounding victory over frontrunner Mitt Romney in the South Carolina primary
Allen Stanford, the Texan businessman, is standing trial accused of orchestrating a $7bn Ponzi scheme over a ten-year period that has left more than 20,000 investors stranded