He says a Russian order has gone out to “take something” in time for the pomp of Victory Day in Moscow on May 9th, or, failing that, before Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing a week later. The speed ...

Strong economic growth, which averaged 5.9% over the 20 years after the country took ownership of the Panama canal at the ...

A South Korean on the OECD ’s poverty line earns almost $22,000. That is still more than an average salary in Mexico. And this does not take into account asset wealth such as property. Still, in South ...

This clash of big dirt and high finance suggests that Anglo harbours something worth fighting over. Its big mines indeed tick all the right boxes: high quality and low cost, with the potential to ...

His “answer engine” is aimed at competing with Google search, one of the best business models of all time. Think Martin Luther taking on the Catholic church. Mr Srinivas is a student of disruption.

South Africa is undeniably a free country. The hidebound evil of apartheid is gone. A liberal constitution helps ensure South Africans can say what they want, move where they like and marry whom they ...

Britain’s welfare state can be impenetrable to claimants. It is also immense: no government department spends more than the DWP. This year spending on social security in Britain is expected to pass ...

The context is New York’s dire lack of housing. In February the city’s triennial housing survey revealed a rental vacancy rate (the proportion of available housing unoccupied) at a historic low of 1.4 ...

But for many religious hardliners, this is not enough. For months New Welfare, an increasingly popular Islamist party, has been giving Mr Erdogan grief. The party wants Mr Erdogan to freeze trade with ...

Despite its dubious value, Donald Tusk, the prime minister, said he would finish the final 900 metres. Other projects can still be reconsidered. An effort to produce a Polish electric car (a ...

Some 446m Europeans have been through a slew of crises in recent years, and have come to fear the same things: Russian aggression, an isolationist America, rapacious Big Tech, climate change.

One of the biggest—the “mecca” of quilt shows, according to one attendee—is the show hosted in late April in Paducah, Kentucky, nestled on the southern bank of the Ohio river. Nicknamed “Quilt City”, ...