The UN special advisor and director of a key science network tells SciDev.Net what the road to 2015 will look like.

There are high hopes that Pope Francis I will usher in an era of health reform and social activism, but doubts remain, finds Imogen Mathers.

Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan of Jordan talks to SciDev.Net about hopes for science in the Middle East, science diplomacy and the role of women scientists.

India has a heavy TB burden but has the technological capacity to deal with it. T.V. Padma reports.

Bernie Fanaroff, director of South Africa's Square Kilometre Array project, tells SciDev.Net how hosting the world's most powerful radio telescope would benefit Africa.

The Royal Society's new foreign secretary, Martyn Poliakoff, talks to SciDev.Net about his plans to develop links with African scientists.

Developing countries need more women scientists. Jeanne Therese H. Andres charts the obstacles and how to overcome them.

As the UN Millennium Development Goals are scrutinised in New York, SciDev.Net finds out what — if anything — science has contributed.

What will the Gates Foundation's links to a network of agricultural research centres mean for tackling hunger, asks Yojana Sharma?

Can a handful of African villages achieve the Millennium Development Goals? Sarah Tomlin reports from Rwanda on how an aid project is acting locally for the global good.