The academic Alison Wolf has done some fascinating research showing that countries with very good prospects for professional women also have extremely high - 90%-plus - proportions of women doing the very low-paid care work.
In a foreign policy speech in Sydney on Sunday following the G20 summit, Merkel sounded deeply despondent about Putin's policies and behaviour and gloomy about the prospects of forcing a strategic shift from the Kremlin.
It "demonstates our confidence in the UK's longer-term growth prospects", said Cheshire.
With the background of the current turmoil in the Middle East, the news that the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has, at the UN general assembly, declared the US-led peace process dead (Report, 27 September), the prospects of a two-state solution look more remote than ever.
Growing evidence of pressures on China's economy are also seen as a key risk to the eurozone's prospects.
They have just unveiled their fancy new website, which gives us a good excuse to show off some of their work: The 50 best prospects in French football (AKA one for the hipsters).
The narrative spirals outwards and backwards to evoke, first, a world without seasons or colour, then the emergence of plant and animal life, then the time of human habitation, ending with a series of "prospects" of Britain which I think are among the best 20th-century nature writing.
More powers and more cash for Edinburgh, obviously, and anything that might advance their separatist agenda which, if ever successful, will be poison to Labour's future prospects.
While the USA Freedom Act appears likely to be passed by the House, its prospects in the Senate are far from certain.
Salman stands to be succeeded in turn by Prince Muqrin, 69, the deputy crown prince, an RAF-trained fighter pilot and former intelligence chief whose prospects are often questioned because he was born to a Yemeni rather than a Saudi mother of "approved" tribal lineage.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the arguments over Athens' debt, and the prospects for growth while that debt weighs on the public finances, the country's major lenders – of which the IMF is the third largest – have tired of Syriza.
