The West’s Afghanistan strategy has failed. In 2021, America withdrew from the country, ending two decades of fighting and ...

Soon after becoming China’s prime minister in 1998 Zhu Rongji famously declared that he had ordered 100 coffins — 99 for corrupt officials and one for himself. In his hatred of bureaucratic graft, the ...

But Ms Hong’s near-win in spite of her considerable political baggage points to a Democratic coalition that remains angry, restless and increasingly receptive to populist-left candidates. There were ...

K evin Warsh enjoys marking a “new chapter”. The newish chair of the Federal Reserve has invoked that writerly metaphor at nearly every public appearance since taking charge in May. He wants markets, ...

T hat science’s best days are behind it, and its rate of progress is slowing, is an old claim. And, since science itself is a perfectly good subject for scientists to investigate, many have looked ...

If you don’t follow sharia, you are not a Muslim,” he says. But since January 2025 it has been illegal for Muslims in Mr Ahmed’s home state of Uttarakhand to obey many of their customary family laws.

At the time it was compared to Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas, was said to have half undone the Declaration of Independence, and prompted giddy predictions of world peace. The ...

I n one way or another, everyone is working the earth outside Kitwe, on Zambia’s Copperbelt province. The local mine is back ...

A lmost every summer since 1549, a group of men from the Isle of Lewis sailed to an uninhabited islet in the North Atlantic ...

The earthquake was as powerful as the deadly pair that devastated Venezuela in June. But it occurred about ten times deeper ...