Opinion

Going through the lists of top reviewed games from 2012 is a strange experience, with reviewers universally throwing their weight behind novel, low-budget indie-style titles rather than the top releases from all the major game studios.

If North Korea's new leader, Kim Jong-un, wanted to end the brutal and destructive tyranny that his father and grandfather imposed on the country, he would need support from abroad.

Loss felt every day

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." - C. S. Lewis We were deep in the heart of the Tatras Mountains. To the north, Poland.

In preparation for its annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland, next week, the World Economic Forum — remember them? — recently released a list of the greatest risks to the world, as determined by a survey of more than 1,000 senior people

It the immortal lyrics of Britney Spears, "Oops, I Did It Again.

The most frustrating part of covering the Lebanese civil war (1975-90) was that after a while there was nothing left to say. Syria is starting to feel just the same. It's horrible, but atrocities are a daily event in all civil wars.

"Where we love is home — home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." - Oliver Wendell Holmes It was too great an opportunity to miss.

Which of the following statements is true? The United States now has a 100-year supply of natural gas, thanks to the miracle of shale gas. By 2017 it will once again be the world's biggest oil producer.

(This is the final column in a three-part series about 2012's biggest technology stories.