The US drug regulator approved a daily pill version of Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy injection, giving the Danish drugmaker a head start as the first to market in the next big competitive frontier in ...

I was taught to use “fewer” with countable nouns: “less coal, fewer sacks”. Perhaps the rule could be expressed in a more contemporary form as: “less protectionism and fewer tariffs”.

For us Lithuanians, VE Day means something different than to the peoples of western Europe who ended up on the right side of the Iron Curtain. In the Baltics, we mark 1993 (1994 for Estonia) as the ...

TikTok’s Chinese owner set to increase capital expenditure next year in effort to further build AI infrastructure ...

The “tell” is a patch on his right shoulder just above the Speedmaster, which if your illustration had been clearer, would have shown the name of his crewmate and commander, Jim Lovell. Gemini 4 was ...

Re Anjana Ahuja’s column “Chimps are better at reasoning than we think” ( Opinion, November 12), the findings remind us how thin the line is between human and animal intelligence. The experiments ...

His composition Music For a Great City described London, not his native New York City. Few compositions make the American heart skip a beat like the triumphant Copland Third!

Ingenious! A Mr Collins chatbot, reminiscent of the famously fawning vicar of Pride and Prejudice, who spent his time bowing and scraping before the irascible Lady Catherine de Bourgh in a futile ...

Patti Waldmeir (“The growing problem of child homelessness”, Outlook, February 11) was right to highlight that the growing crisis goes largely unreported in US newspapers. Or if it is reported, it’s ...

The Elizabeth Line, that sleek purple ribbon slicing through London like a royal sceptre, was meant to set new standards. One imagines Her Late Majesty observing the scrum beneath her name with a ...

Students of modern Chinese history may hear a faint, ironic echo. In 1982, Deng Xiaoping famously launched his reform era by declaring China would pursue “socialism with Chinese characteristics”: an ...

Rachel Reeves last week talked of turbocharging the economy when presenting the Spring Statement to MPs. Given her cabinet colleague Ed Miliband’s preoccupation with achieving net zero, perhaps the ...