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Britain is home to more AI unicorns (private companies with valuations at or above $1bn) than France and Germany combined.

Friday will test how sustainable that rally is. About $15bn-worth of Bitcoin options—contracts that give investors the right ...

Last year a documentary series about women who had broken with Opus Dei caused a stir in Spain and Latin America. “How I Left ...

Yet it is still stuck on the runway. Over the past half-century, rather than taking wing, Brazil’s economy has stagnated ...

Neck and neck in the polls are Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the 80-year-old incumbent known as Lula, and Flávio Bolsonaro, the ...

F OR YOUNG city-dwellers weighing what they can afford to pay in rent, we offer some good news. The number of America’s 100 ...

The Economist has updated this approach, adding data from later assessments. The raw trendline between income and results ...

Many of the law’s new rules will be introduced gradually. Makers of packaging have until 2028 to introduce standardised labels showing the materials in their products and how to dispose of them.

The theory could help explain Italy’s strangely low rate of fentanyl overdoses. In 2024 the synthetic opiate, which is about 100 times stronger than morphine, was detected in just two fatal ...

Britain’s new chancellor has learned from the mistakes of Rachel Reeves, his predecessor. In her first speech on the job she complained of inheriting “the worst set of circumstances since the second ...

W hen Jeff Miller, a writer from New Jersey, moved to Massachusetts, he was denied a driving licence for being a felon. But he was not a felon. He had been confused with another Jeff Miller, born on ...