S ince its independence almost 60 years ago, Singapore has become a beacon of prosperity. In a part of the world where middle-income status is the norm, the city-state is now the ...

D onald Trump’s criminal trial, soon to enter its fifth week, has felt like drawn-out foreplay. There have been moments of frisson. But as with any such encounter that stretches ...

Lawrence Wong, the finance minister and deputy prime minister, will take the reins of the city-state’s government on May 15th. The country does not churn through prime ministers: he will be just the ...

Donald Trump’s lawyers called for mistrial after Stormy Daniels took the stand in the former president’s criminal trial. The judge denied the request. They had objected to what they called ...

The judge overseeing Mr Trump’s criminal case in Florida—in which he is accused of harbouring classified documents—indefinitely postponed the trial.  Aileen Cannon, who was appointed by Mr Trump, said ...

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Some of the biggest increases came from America’s NATO allies in Europe after a long period of low spending. Excluding America, NATO members increased spending by $68bn, or 19%, between 2022 and 2023.

But the ravages of war are not the only reason for the government’s reduced tax take. Businesses are also making use of the chaos to dodge paying their fair share. This is particularly true in ...

W HEN HAMAS announced, on the evening of May 6th, that it had agreed to a ceasefire with Israel, the mood in Rafah turned ...

Now it is the turn of Charles’s son. By contrast to his father, Prince William has said little of note about architecture or planning, or indeed anything at all. But as first in line to the throne he ...

While suppressing many sources of dissent, in the media and civil society, the government also projects Mr Modi as an everyman, acutely in touch with the problems of ordinary people and committed ...