In February Mr Trump halted graft investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, blaming the law for erecting ...

Cheese rolling is, for now, not officially recognised. That may soon change. This summer, the government will invite public ...

YOU MIGHT think it would be impossible for the inferno in Israel and Gaza to burn hotter. Yet Binyamin Netanyahu is fuelling ...

D ONALD TRUMP insists that tariffs will bring back jobs and revitalise American industry, and that short-term pain would be ...

It helps, too, that big companies tend to have more suppliers in more places. A study by the World Economic Forum and Kearney ...

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A LMOST EVERY week the world takes another step towards artificial super-intelligence. The most powerful AI models can do an ...

That might surprise people who had to cope with bubonic plague, ice ages, Vikings, world wars, colonisation and the rest. But ...

Mr Trump prefers to govern by executive order, but the bill approved last week addressed administration priorities that couldn’t be tackled with his signature alone. Most significantly, it makes ...

The debt of other governments looks newly risky, too, with long-term yields rising across much of the rich world (see chart).

A YEAR AGO, for 30 drones to strike Ukraine in a single night was considered exceptional. Now Russia is saturating Ukraine’s ...

Vietnam’s economy has come a long way since the Vietnam war ended 50 years ago, leaving an already poor country in ruins. At ...