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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

On November 30th the country held a referendum on their proposal to levy a 50% federal inheritance tax on the super-rich and ...

And, given the outward strength of America’s labour market, how credible are fears of a jobs-pocalpyse? The case for concern ...

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

Denmark will be the first European country to do so. The step is demand-driven: over the past 25 years the volume of letters ...

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

John Prideaux, our US editor, considers the implications of a leaked phone call between American and Russian officials ...

In medicine, meanwhile, China has turned itself from a copycat maker of generics into the world’s second-largest developer of ...