But it has also been pursuing a more subtle campaign, one that involves bribery, blackmail and secret deals, and which uses ...

Mr Huang, by contrast, was excluded because his performance in 2023 was too good—so much so that it earned him the honour of ...

For months a spat between Somalia and Ethiopia had been creeping towards a crisis. In June Somalia threatened to expel all of Ethiopia’s troops from its territory, where they have long ...

This, at least, is the portrait drawn by the State Democracy Index, developed by Jake Grumbach, a political scientist at the ...

The horror arrived on the evening of December 20th, when a BMW ploughed through the Christmas market in Magdeburg, a city in ...

A key priority is the establishment of immediate sustainable, permanent ceasefires in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. A ...

The MOVE index, a similar metric for interest rates, has plummeted since America’s presidential election. Such benign ...

They report in the European Journal of Archaeology that, although eight social-play toys were found among the Norse ...

At the bottom of the chart are the fundamental particles—quarks, bosons (eg Higgs, w +, w -, z ), protons, neutrons, ...

Hence the Trembita, which is one of several missile projects the country hopes will ignite a resurgence in its domestic ...

The Economist tries “slow journalism” with Paul Salopek ...