Much of this is posturing. A company looks better in investors’ eyes if it attributes staff cuts to its technological prowess ...

Welcome to The War Room. This newsletter regularly covers Ukraine, Gaza and other geopolitical flashpoints, and rightly so.

Between 2011 and 2021 the number of members in Africa increased by 120%, compared with 19% globally. Matt Martinich, a ...

The other is the National Escape Clause (nec), which allows countries to increase defence spending by up to 1.5% of gdp over ...

And then there are leaf blowers. In recent years dozens of municipalities have enacted ordinances restricting or entirely ...

Jacqueline Harpman was born into a Jewish family in Belgium in 1929 and “ IWHNKM ” evokes the horrors of Nazism. Her slim, ...

America and China are locked in an AI arms race, but they aren’t the only ones running. Countries worldwide are quietly ...

Donald Trump said he had decided who to nominate to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve, though he declined to name his pick. Kevin Hassett, a senior economic adviser to Mr Trump, ...

The rebels have a point. Across Europe playgrounds are emptying while care homes fill up. The European Commission reckons that by 2070 there will be barely two working-age adults on the continent for ...

Humans are trafficked for two main reasons: sexual exploitation, mostly of women and girls, and forced labour, which ensnares ...

London will mark the company’s first international expansion and put it in direct competition with Uber, which is also set to ...

T ourists in the bars of Tokyo are rejoicing. Visiting Japan was once a mightily expensive endeavour; now it is cheaper than ...