W e haVE two covers this week. In one we consider Donald Trump’s imperial presidency. The consensus that America should be a ...

Until, of course, in 2013 the Silk Road was shut down by FBI agents and Mr Ulbricht, then 29 years old, was arrested in the ...

Kenya’s high court will decide whether it has jurisdiction to hear a $2.3bn case brought against Meta by Mr Abrham and two ...

China’s announcement on January 17th that its economy had grown by an estimated 5% in 2024, right on target, was greeted with ...

This is where Mr Trump’s talk of an “invasion” becomes more than rhetorical bombast. Framing the cartels as terrorists ...

International cables make electricity cheaper, greener and more reliable. Around the world, less than 3% of all power crosses ...

S ince leaving hospital in December, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula (pictured), has cut a smart figure. Brazil’s president has taken to wearing a Panama hat to hide deep scars from two ...

M ore than any other country, Donald Trump went after Mexico on his first day in office. He ordered its criminal gangs to be designated as foreign terrorist organisations (FTOs), ...

Germany is now “the world champion when it comes to sick days,” according to Oliver Bäte, the boss of Allianz, Europe’s biggest insurer. In an interview with Handelsblatt, a newspaper, Mr Bäte called ...

C onflicting SIGNALS are reaching the new American administration from Rome. And some carry a whiff of incense. While Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, was preparing to fly to Washington to ...

Quotient Therapeutics, a biotech company founded in 2022, hopes to take this transatlantic model and commercialise it. Its main research lab is in Great Chesterford, a village just outside Cambridge, ...

T HE JAILING of dissenters is nothing new in Uzbekistan, Central Asia’s most populous country, where faulting the president can land you in trouble. What is unusual is the recent public outcry after ...