Appointed on September 9th, Sébastien Lecornu, France’s new prime minister, has spent weeks trying to form a functioning ...

T HIS SUMMER Sir Sadiq Khan, London’s mayor, opened a new glass-fronted office block in the centre of the capital. Its tenant was Synthesia, a firm that turns written prompts in ...

B RITISH POLICE believe their seizure of 61,000 bitcoin from a Chinese citizen is the largest of cryptocurrency anywhere. At ...

Finland has something special that America wants ...

The message may sound a little desperate, but that reflects a crisis in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has dominated Japan’s politics for seven decades. For the first time, it is governing ...

The eventual aim is to get the population down to 450 wolves in the state, the lowest sustainable level as determined by a ...

And China hopes to draw on talented foreigners, too. On October 1st it introduced a new “K” visa that will admit science, ...

If you go back to the worst time in Kurdish history, our civil war, we never did this,” he says, referring to old battles for ...

Bosses are defined by the power they exercise. That power has great value in co-ordinating teams, resolving conflicts and ...

Jair Bolsonaro is having a terrible few weeks. On September 29th Tarcísio de Freitas, the right-wing governor of São Paulo, ...

Eritrea was once one of Africa’s most industrialised parts. Now even the most basic goods, like soap or bottled water, have ...

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