Nearly two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2030, with most people middle class, connected by technology, and protected by advanced healthcare.

CHAOTIC post-war Iraq has become the world’s biggest training ground for the next generation of “professionalised” terrorists, according to a CIA report.

A highly classified National Intelligence Estimate assembled by some of the US government’s most senior analysts this summer provided a pessimistic assessment about the future security and stability of Iraq.

Osama bin Laden’s hiding places are shrinking, but they aren’t gone. The accused terrorist could sneak across a mountain border to Kashmir, blend in with refugees inside Afghanistan or - perhaps most likely - hunker down in a cave and hope not to be found.