The Economist interviewed Andy Burnham, Britain’s prime minister, while he attended the meeting of Commonwealth leaders in ...

O n both sides of the Taiwan Strait, there are many roads, districts and schools named after the father of modern China: Sun ...

To examine the ratio between values we can use a log scale. Instead of each tick being a set distance apart, they get closer ...

Stock markets in America hit the skids again. The S&P 500 lost around 4% of its value on Thursday; the NASDAQ index of tech ...

Shabana mahmood’s parents arrived in Britain from Kashmir in the 1970s. The father of the home secretary was a civil engineer ...

A Hong Kong court sentenced Joshua Wong, one of the territory’s most prominent pro-democracy activists, to ten years in jail ...

Pornography is an unpopular thing to defend. But Britain has become too willing to ban anything pearl-clutchers dislike, from ...

Stock markets in America hit the skids again. The S&P 500 lost 2.5% of its value on Thursday; the NASDAQ index of tech firms ...

A MONG THE countries most prone to natural disasters, Japan has a habit of spawning new bureaucracies. Yet, despite in recent ...

Gulf states fear that President Donald Trump may lash out abroad after being wounded in the midterm elections at home (see ...

P ity the European shag. An agile diver, it is clumsy on land and barely waterproof. Winter storms off Britain’s coast can be deadly. Between 1986 and 2024 shag numbers dropped ...

Births in Ukraine are falling, in part because there are fewer adults. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 the ...