T HE SOUTH CAUCASUS is a mosaic of warring rivals and closed borders. Lookout posts and bunkers dot its frontiers. On August ...

Anything on four wheels that isn’t a bus falls into the 20%,” says Elly Baker, chair of the London Assembly’s transport ...

The same may well hold true for lupus, a condition in which the immune system attacks healthy organs, including the brain, ...

So Sir Pascal may seem an unlikely ally of Donald Trump, who as America’s president has slashed public spending on scientific ...

Brazil was not the only country targeted for political reasons. India faces a comparable rate for buying Russian oil. Mr ...

Even General Tojo Hideki, often considered one of the most bellicose leaders of wartime Japan, and who was later executed by ...

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Wednesday: Harry Truman and George H.W. Bush both enjoyed pitching horseshoes. Bush did it with such luminaries as Boris ...

Some people then ask “how is everyone?”, forcing everyone to unmute again and say something wildly insightful like “fine”. By ...

McDonald’s shares lost 16% of their value between January and July, their worst half-yearly run since the global financial ...

Shanxi is China’s most sluggish province. Last year its economy grew by 2.3%, well below the national average of 5%. In the first half of this year, it grew by 3.8% compared with a year earlier: a ...

Most Israeli Jews thought their country was waging a just war. But since mid-July, mainstream news bulletins that had shunned ...