Lord Paddy Ashdown, former High Representative in Bosnia and leader of the UK's Liberal Democrat Party, shares his thoughts about how to bring peace to an increasingly unstable world.

I was going through Paddington station the other day and somebody came up to me and said '’Ere,' he said, 'didn’t you used to be Paddy Ashdown?' And I said 'Yes I think on balance I probably have been at some stage or another.'

Do men suffer from the male menopause? Is there such a thing as a nervous breakdown? Does hay fever have anything to do with hay? What exactly is heartburn?

Expressions such as these are thrown around fairly casually, but in an attempt to explain a health condition do they actually cause more confusion?  

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'If there is no self
Whose arthritis is this?' 

When two major world religions meet, can the result be anything other than an overflow of, erm, wisdom?

'The resilience of kids astounds me constantly. They are so brave. They're so loyal. More loyal to parents than parents are to them, let me tell you.' So says Barbara Holborow, a battling champion for Australia's disadvantaged kids.

By Geraldine Royds

There's not a lot Barbara Holborow hasn't seen when it comes to young criminals and abused kids.   As magistrate in the Children’s Court in Sydney, Australia, her compassion and outspokenness were legendary. Although her days as a magistrate are over, her passion for children in need is as strong as ever.

Colliding galaxies make fantastic shapes resembling a toothbrush, an owl, a grasshopper and other forms as they smash into and dismember one another.

A new set of Hubble Space Telescope images offers a preview of our own galaxy's fate five billion years from now writes David Shiga

Forgiveness Project participants share their healing journeys