The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.

When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't have electricity, and on top of that you live under one of the most repressive regimes right now... Well, put all that together, and it's a ticking bomb. It's not of a question of threat; it is question of looking around at the present environment and making a rational prognosis.

The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry.

Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts - stalled for a decade - to bring about nuclear disarmament.