When Blaise Metreweli takes over as the 18th chief of MI6 on October 1st, succeeding Sir Richard Moore, she is unlikely to ...

Covid-19 was less deadly. But two recent books argue that it, too, had far-reaching and unexpected consequences. It fed a ...

For now the famine is centred in the governorate of Gaza, one of five in the strip. It is the most densely populated and home ...

F inland is the undisputed sauna capital of the world, with approximately one sauna for every 1.6 people. But voluntary ...

These young American soldiers are unabashedly feminine and unexpectedly cheerful. It is a long way from the macho military ...

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

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China regulates accountancy, law, retail and even estate agents more tightly than the average member of the OECD, a club of ...

But the cia officer in question, along with two others involved in that 2016 report, Shelby Pierson and Vinh Nguyen, are some ...

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

The literary world was, for a long time, not very diverse: in America in 1985, just 18 of 2,500 books were by black authors ...

Despite unease over his Islamist past, most Syrians rallied behind Ahmed al-Sharaa, their new leader. Over the summer, ...