E veryone is a sex detective now. A train entering a tunnel, a jutting skyscraper: in the post-Freudian age, readers and ...

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T he football World Cup is still a month away. But in Mexico the planet’s biggest sporting event has already spawned its ...

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Some 2bn barrels, or 5% of the world’s yearly oil supply, have already been lost because the Strait of Hormuz is shut. Every ...

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It turned out that Chinese firms could make ev s well—too well and too cheaply for the comfort of foreign governments, which ...

On betting markets, where Flávio had been favourite to win the presidency, he plunged into second place by ten points. The ...

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Days later, after a brisk operation, Jan Morris walked out. “I really am me!” She felt instantly different. As a man her role ...

F rom time to time Prabowo Subianto, Indonesia’s president, evinces magnanimity towards his critics. “Am I really an ...

In 2019 Maven was used during the operation to kill Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of Islamic State, in Syria, and Qassem ...