Yet it was the youngster who put in a masterful performance on May 17th, smashing the Australian bowler around the stadium.

D uring the first Gulf war in 1991, Iraqi troops occupying Kuwait deliberately opened the taps of oil tankers, terminals and ...

Effective as it is, however, some mosquitoes seem capable of getting over their revulsion. This has led to the speculation ...

S ome refugees flee from wars and end up in squalid tented camps. Others defy this stereotype. Consider the white HR ...

Twitchy censors are quick to pounce on works that fail to promote “positive energy”. To placate them, directors usually avoid ...

In China’s worst mining accident since 2009, a gas explosion ripped through a coalmine in Shanxi province on May 22nd.

One of the most important books on war and technology in years. A fascinating exposé of “kidfluencing”. As parents broadcast ...

P ope Leo’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is very long (at more than 42,000 words, the length of a short novel). It ...

Alloyed embodies how Britain could carve out a new place, as a manufacturer of clever products with high added value. One way ...

By Beverly Gage. Simon and Schuster; 352 pages; $30. Oneworld; £22. A MERICANS drive a lot. That habit has some detrimental ...

F ortune has smiled on Abiy Ahmed. When Ethiopia’s prime minister was a boy his mother prophesied that he would become a king ...

Net migration to Britain last year amounted to 171,000—the lowest level since 2012, if the pandemic years are excluded. The ...