International
Qatar and Bahrain
One goes up, the other down
With a little help from their friends, two Gulf mini-states are ending their long dispute over a cluster of islets, reefs and and sandbanks. But at home the two are travelling in different directions. First, we report from Doha
From the archive
The green legacy
1992: Our correspondent reports from the Earth summit in Rio de Janeiro
From the archives
The United Nations: World Assembly
The UN officially came into existence on October 24th 1945. On 6th January 1946 it met for the first time, in London. The new organisation should endeavour to be a "peace-preserving organ of world society", The Economist wrote at the time