News Snapshot:
In 1989 many of us thought it was all over, bar the shouting. The Cold War was over. The Berlin Wall fell. That summer, the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama published his celebrated essay The End Of History? postulating: "What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalisation of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." Israel-Gaza latest: War against Hamas in 'next...