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An obvious plot offers itself to the deft diplomat: could Europe, the continental home of the Nobel prizes, dangle the ...

Not any more. The recent boom in car theft offers a window into an ever-shifting battleground. On one side are manufacturers, ...

The Taliban were supposed to remain in the diplomatic doghouse until they abandoned their abhorrent treatment of women and ...

But physiological changes in pregnancy—such as a faster metabolism, greater heat production, and heavier demands on the heart ...

This does not mean that Britain is “lawless”, as the government’s critics complain. But both are signs of something worrying: ...

The Super Lig has long been popular among European players near the end of their careers. Turkey’s football-mad president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has lured them with a tax exemption: they pay a flat 20 ...

Chipmaking is not an end in itself but a critical input America’s tech sector requires to be world-beating. Forcing firms to ...

Turning up for class would help. Fully 23% of white British children were persistently absent last year, compared with 4% for ...

But the cia officer in question, along with two others involved in that 2016 report, Shelby Pierson and Vinh Nguyen, are some of the most senior serving career intelligence officials to be purged ...

Half an hour later, as phones buzzed to mark the end of the drill, the top brass of tsmc, the world’s largest chipmaker, ...

Other cases suggest collusion at a lower level. Mwabili Mwagodi, a Kenyan critic of Mr Ruto, whose rule is increasingly ...