Jay Powell’s speech at the Federal Reserve’s August summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is always a high-stakes moment. This ...

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Last week, for the second time in eight months, the world failed to come up with a global treaty to fight plastic pollution.

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Rie Qudan’s prizewinning Japanese novella packs in themes from crime to architecture, tech to generational disconnect ...

Wildfires in Spain spanning a burnt area twice the size of London will trigger disaster declarations for the worst affected regions, its prime minister said, clearing the way for funding for aid and ...

Hamas has told Egyptian and Qatari mediators it is willing to accept a ceasefire proposal to end the war in Gaza and secure ...

Bill Gates is funding a $1mn competition to spur the use of artificial intelligence to find innovative treatments for ...

With the global cocaine business booming as never before, organised crime groups are diversifying into a swath of other ...

This is as good a time as any to launch Is It Borked?, our new interactive quiz game. We’ll name an ONS data series, you have to tell us whether it is currently suspended. (NB: The answers all come ...

Seen from the Oval Office, it’s not hard to make the case that the US government taking a huge stake in chipmaker Intel makes sense. Viewed from elsewhere, the plan is somewhere between pointless and ...