Some people then ask “how is everyone?”, forcing everyone to unmute again and say something wildly insightful like “fine”. By ...

McDonald’s shares lost 16% of their value between January and July, their worst half-yearly run since the global financial ...

Shanxi is China’s most sluggish province. Last year its economy grew by 2.3%, well below the national average of 5%. In the first half of this year, it grew by 3.8% compared with a year earlier: a ...

Perhaps the biggest threat comes from natural disasters, which climate change is making more common and intense. Take the ...

Most Israeli Jews thought their country was waging a just war. But since mid-July, mainstream news bulletins that had shunned ...

When strip clubs close, Ms Salome says, the demand doesn’t disappear, it goes underground. Far from feeling exploited, Louise ...

Today the reproachful frowns are aimed at “ buy now, pay later ” ( bnpl ). This practice, which lets people pay for things they buy online in instalments, is booming; over $300bn in payments were ...

Controversially, Italy’s safe-countries list includes Bangladesh and Egypt. Italian judges blocked the scheme on suspicion ...

You might hear the same argument today in Albania’s capital. One thing, however, has changed: for the first time in Albania’s ...

Acquisition talks carried on. A tidy takeover suited Panama and the United States. Only once the Chinese government made its ...

The real problem with this image is that Germans are losing their taste for the tipple that once defined them. On August 1st ...

More than two years after it began in April 2023, the war in Sudan shows no sign of ending, with deadly consequences for the ...