Preparations ordered by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, before his assassination on February 28th, proceeded as ...

F IFTEEN YEARS ago the state of Baden-Württemberg sent tremors across Germany by electing the country’s first—and so far only ...

The movement’s enthusiasm for the strikes on Iran also reflects the appeal of Mr Trump’s broader approach to military power.

India's government has celebrated its economy becoming the world's fourth-largest by GDP, but recent revisions show it ...

Eight new novels explore themes from crime and family dysfunction to forbidden love and generational conflict, offering ...

Surging Asian demand for WTI is reflected in the cost of ferrying it from America’s Gulf Coast to China. This has nearly doubled in the past week, in part because one in ten of the world’s tankers ...

British legislation to combat this has not kept pace with more robust laws elsewhere. Asda, Morrisons, Tesco and Waitrose, for example, all sell tomato products that would be barred from America under ...

Goldman Sachs, a bank, has warned that the price could rise to all-time highs, meaning some $150 per barrel, if the war continues until the end of March. The Islamic Republic, for its part, wagered ...

Most important, little else in the economy points to a shift towards the wealthy. The wages of low-earners are growing at a similar rate to those of richer ones—and grew much faster in the ...

Britain has become more like a continental European country in that respect, and in many others. The birth rate has slumped and young people are living at home for longer. Its economy tracks that of ...