America’s economy is strong, overdose deaths are falling and crime rates are down. For the second consecutive year murders in America have plummeted. The surge in violence in 2020, which was the ...

His efforts to “repel the disastrous invasion of our country” by migrants and drugs from Mexico and Canada may soon include stemming the passage of cars. A promise to impose sweeping tariffs on “day ...

O VER THE past decade, as Chinese governance has become more politicised and a fear of punishment has taken hold, local officials have changed the way they do things. Many are hol ...

CARBON MONOXIDE is best-known as a poison. Each year around 30,000 people worldwide die from exposure to the gas, which can be produced by cooking stoves or indoor fires. But could it also have ...

It is an even better time to be a football club. The 20 highest earners brought in a record €11bn ($12bn) in combined revenues in the 2023-24 season, according to Deloitte, a professional-services ...

W HEN SOUTH KOREA’S president, Yoon Suk Yeol, sent troops streaming into the country’s National Assembly on December 3rd, Lee Jae-myung turned on his livestream. Viewers watched on a shaky smartphone ...

The government has declared a “state of internal commotion” in response to the worst humanitarian crisis in decades ...

But Ms Jao is reluctant to become a wu nu, or “housing slave”, she says. That is slang for young homebuyers who feel trapped by their expensive mortgages. Taiwan’s youngsters are not exaggerating when ...

EU member states have been told to review transactions that have taken place since January 2021 in areas where these technologies have formed part of overseas investment. They must submit a progress ...

C HESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent fans might concede that, as a spectacle, watching two players think for long ...

LOBITH, NEAR where the river Rhine enters the Netherlands, has been a border town ever since northern Europe has had borders. Buried nearby lie the remains of a Roman camp that in the first century AD ...

But all is not well between China and Cambodia these days. China made no new loans to Cambodia last year. It has been especially reluctant to invest in the government’s flagship project, a canal which ...