Britain’s universities have enjoyed some of the highest budgets in the world; not all of that cash has been spent wisely. Yet ...

A law letting the government block freedom of movement could be a deal-breaker for the EU. Yet a fudge might still be found.

F or the past couple of years much of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, was reduced to rubble by demolitions. Now luxury ...

Editor’s note: On July 17th Sir Keir Starmer and Friedrich Merz signed the treaty described in this story.

After a few minutes the guards tried to let a group of women join the front of the queue. The crowd surged forward and broke ...

The group sank just two ships in all of 2024, and none since last June. Now they have sunk two in less than a week. Yet the ...

It is one of a trio of new works, alongside Gordon Corera’s “The Spy in the Archive” and Tim Weiner’s “The Mission”, which ...

C hina’s one-child policy was not only cruel; it was a failure. Decades of shackling women to beds and forcing them to ...

For women the median answer was 1.6. But around 25% of men and 28% of women said that moderation meant not drinking at all.

The researchers’ method was straightforward enough. The Congressional Budget Office ( CBO) estimated the impact of the bill ...

The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, which is currently in full, enthusiastic swing in Morocco, is breaking similar records.

P enny Wong, Australia’s foreign minister, prefers to talk about her job, not herself. Asked what it was like to be in ...