On July 23rd, after two years and an unprecedented number of submissions from governments and international institutions, the ...

Formerly known as food stamps, the programme has roots in a New Deal plan to redirect crop surpluses. Its subsequent survival ...

AIDS AND HIV, the virus that causes it, once sparked fear across the world. Apocalyptic forecasters in early 2002 reckoned that in some southern African countries half of new mothers would soon die of ...

India can be a difficult place to live, with its pollution, noise and chaos. Yet even the richest stay put. This year some 3,500 Indian millionaires are expected to emigrate, according to data from ...

On the face of it, Uganda’s intervention in eastern Congo is less controversial than that of M 23 and Rwanda. The government ...

Ever since he was first elected in 2017 Mr Macron has pushed the idea of European “strategic autonomy”. For years it was brushed aside politely by France’s Atlanticist neighbours as fanciful Gaullist ...

Yet they also risk leaving the giants looking like sprawling conglomerates, struggling to achieve a jumble of unrelated ...

That has caused shipping bosses to watch every oscillation in Mr Trump’s trade policies closely, though anticipating them has proved impossible. Vincent Clerc, the boss of Maersk, one of the world’s ...

In 1995 an estimated 20m crimes were committed in England and Wales, an all-time high. That figure then fell for almost three ...

Some were more like organised assaults than protests. Few attendees carried placards, although some were draped in British or English flags. They attacked mosques and hotels containing asylum-seekers.

The rich and famous have new methods. Get invited to use an American Express “black card” and, after paying a $10,000 joining ...

This is Jolene Jolene, a women’s-sports bar. Chelsea Fishman, its owner, opened Jolene Jolene in Atlanta on July 4th. That ...