21 must-read stories for the weekend

The Paris attacks highlighted EU challenges on foreign policy and security. Could ISIS bring Europe closer together?

Antibiotic resistance could cost the globe $100 trillion. The good news: effective drugs would require just $16 billion-$35 billion dollars over 10 years

Rehousing the world’s refugees. Are new cities the answer?

Gender-sensitive algorithms and child-minding robots are just two developments raising hopes that machines will slay sexism.

China joins the reserve currency club. Beijing has convinced the IMF that the renminbi is freely convertible. Now for the markets.

Podcast: What if anyone could edit the human genome?

“We will look back on this moment as a remarkable transformation,” writes chief UN climate negotiator Christina Figueres.

Putting a price on pollution. It’s key to tackling climate change, says the IMF’s Christine Lagarde. But what is a fair carbon price?

Decarbonizing the world. Nobody said it would be easy. But these lessons from the past might help.

Can a climate deal be reached? There are plenty of reasons to be cheerful.

The race for Arctic domination can bring the world closer. It’s not just resources at stake. Bypassing Suez for the Pole halves the shipping time from Shanghai to Rotterdam.

Elite education provides a network advantage. It’s not knowledge but connections that make top colleges transformative for less privileged students.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution means new materials. Scientists have discovered a new form of carbon that’s luminous, magnetic, and harder than diamond.

Commercializing the internet transformed information. Is the next revolution the transformation of energy?

The market is reforming the finance industry. Passive fund management is starting to eat into finance industry profits.

Technology is not to blame for inequality. The culprits are more likely to be monopolies and oligopolies.

India must reform before it can transform, the country’s prime minister told his country, referencing Forum research. (Business Standard)

A fresh start for Argentina? That’s what the country’s newly elected president has promised and what he hopes to discuss in Davos this January. (Bloomberg)

The two faces of Iran. One is conservative and inward-looking, the other is global-minded and engaged. Which will dominate? Cites Forum research. (National)

Tough times ahead for the UAE. It does well on international measures such as the Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report, but plunging oil prices are putting pressure on the economy. (Telegraph)

The high cost of corruption. Once the breadbasket of Africa, years of misrule have left Zimbabwe trailing behind the rest of the continent. References Forum data. (AllAfrica)

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Author: Adrian Monck is Managing Director and head of Public Engagement at the World Economic Forum.

Image: Visitors dine on a rooftop restaurant on top of a Supertree in the Gardens by the Bay, Singapore, July 16, 2015. REUTERS/Edgar Su