On September 25th Donald Trump signed an executive order allowing the app to continue operating in America, on the basis that ...

T hree covers in one issue is a mountain of work. When the news is compelling, the temptation is to hold back important, but less urgent, insights for a quieter time. Yet that comes at the cost of our ...

So, what is Mr Urban’s best tank of all time? He plumps for the Centurion. It was the tank that helped to save Israel during ...

Light-emitting diode (LED) face masks are all the rage. Depending on the colour you choose, manufacturers promise they will ...

O VERNIGHT SUCCESS”, a thumping 1980s pop song, blared as Takaichi Sanae stepped up to the podium to announce her candidacy to lead Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ). The music choice ...

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Not Donald Trump. That years-long government probe—concerning his 2016 presidential campaign’s contacts with Russians—was a crucible for the president. In his mind it was a deep-state conspiracy to ...

I N recent months makers of weight-loss drugs have gone on a crash diet. In late July Novo Nordisk, the Danish firm that gave ...

The worst effects of this flaw, as we report in the Science & technology section, are reserved for those who create what is ...

Convincing Mr Abbas will be hard. He has Arab states’ backing to run Gaza after the war and seems willing to see off ...

Across America, drug policy is shifting as a backlash takes hold against “harm reduction’, an approach grounded in the idea ...

Over the weekend many of America’s tech giants scrambled to advise employees on H- 1 B visas not to leave the country until ...