From Cameroon’s Biya, who has ruled since 1982, to Nigeria’s Tinubu, now 73, the continent’s leadership ranks are filled with presidents old enough to be grandfathers to many of their citizens. Africa ...

PRINCETON – In an age of shifting geopolitics, many countries’ strategic planning includes imaginative exercises in weaponizing their positions in the world. While Russia and China have been ...

Nicolas Sarkozy entered the Elysée Palace in 2007 boasting hyperactive energy and a vision to transform France, but lost office after just one term and the ex-president is now set to go to prison in a ...

Paris (AFP) – Nicolas Sarkozy entered the Elysee Palace in 2007 boasting hyperactive energy and a vision to transform France, but lost office after just one term and the ex-president is now set to go ...

Nicolas Sarkozy entered the Elysee Palace in 2007, boasting hyperactive energy and a vision to transform France, but lost office after just one term and the ex-president is now set to go to prison in ...

President Donald Trump struggled to pronounce “acetaminophen” — a drug commonly known as Tylenol — as he announced an unproven link between the drug and autism. The internet couldn’t stop laughing ...

The study found that Quonochontaug is the most difficult place name to pronounce in Rhode Island. According to Preply, the hardest state name for Americans to pronounce is Arkansas. According to the ...

In a recent lecture titled “The Fiscal Future,” Professor N. Gregory Mankiw of Harvard University laid out the following future scenarios as our federal debt explodes. The national government can ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Queues so long they turn a Louvre visit into “a physical ordeal”, rain leaking through the glass pyramid and ...

What Exactly Is a Gyro? Gyros consist of a pita wrap containing meat (usually pork and beef in Greece, while lamb is more common in the U.S.) sliced off a vertical rotisserie. Typical toppings include ...

Since the 1940s, the US dollar has held firm as the global reserve currency, driving international trade and reinforcing the status of the United States as an economic superpower. In recent years, ...

How Did Uranus Get Its Name? Though English astronomer John Flamsteed was the first person to record observations of Uranus in the 1690s, he thought it was a star. Sir William Herschel gets the credit ...