These days the 860km-long road from Ramadi in Iraq to western Syria is lined with lorries heaving with oil. They rumble past ...

O N A RECENT Friday in Long Beach, California more than a dozen mayors from across America sat in a circle in a cavernous ...

Mega-events like the World Cup still seize global attention. But the bigger picture is that entertainment is fragmenting.

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Once again, Iran has been “completely defeated”, said Donald Trump on June 10th. Confusingly, the “Bully of the Middle East”, ...

D ID THE young Swede who refereed both the semi-final and final of the World Cup in Italy in 1934 really meet Benito ...

When a Sudanese refugee was caught attacking a man in Belfast on June 8th, Restore, a far-right party, pledged: “A Restore ...

As changes to the tax code are wont to do, this brought about a vast reorganisation of American business. Private ...

Although cancer treatments are improving fast, prevention has so far been mostly about promoting a healthy lifestyle. But ...

Chinese authors published as many papers as American, British, German and Japanese researchers combined in 2025. Yet two ...

W hile TYPING away at a WeWork in San Francisco recently, your correspondent spied a plane flying across the skyline trailing ...

Six centuries later tight-lipped priests are once again being tested—this time in America’s state legislatures. Various state ...