China’s economic footprint in Africa has grown fast over the last two decades. Across the continent, Chinese-backed mines, oilfields, railways and industrial zones have gone from being ambitious ...

At the opening of its session, the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) adopted its Agreed Conclusions on strengthening access to justice for all women and girls, following weeks of intense ...

Trump’s Iran war is historically unique in one critically important way: Early on, the war is not popular with the American public.

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Ninety-seven per cent of us cannot tell the difference between AI-generated and human-authored music. When an AI cover recently went viral, it sparked questions about ethics and transparency.

As the conflict escalates, understanding who benefits from this crisis might be as important as counting its costs. The timing could hardly be worse for the UK economy. Official forecasts for GDP ...

Oil shocks create winners and losers, but the Canadian dollar no longer softens the blow the way it once did.

Will Donald Trump’s Washington arch celebrate the American republic’s independence from Britain in 1776, or its subsequent ascendance as an imperial power in its own right?

This question haunts director Kei Ishikawa’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel, A Pale View of Hills (1982). The complex story follows “unreliable narrator” Etsuko from Japan to England. A ...

A tsunami risk in the Mediterranean is real. Coastal towns like Nice can get “Tsunami ready” by coordinating fast, effective preventive and awareness-raising efforts.

It began with red paint at the UK Treasury, and ended in one of the most successful international climate initiatives.

The 50 American individuals and couples who gave or pledged the most to charity in 2025 committed US$22.4 billion to foundations, universities, hospitals and more. That total was 35% above an ...