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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Generations of political leaders in South Korea called it home until Yoon Suk Yeol, then the president, decided to move out ...