The campaign memoir is an American tradition with a few signature ingredients. These include a flattering headshot, a title ...

Reportedly, the French government had planned a big conference this week on promoting the four-day work week—but then ...

Mike Johnson easily survived an attempt to oust him as the speaker of America’s House of Representatives. Mr Johnson, a ...

S ince its independence almost 60 years ago, Singapore has become a beacon of prosperity. In a part of the world where middle ...

On May 3rd the Bureau of Labour Statistics reported that America added 175,000 jobs in April, well below expectations. Companies including Nike, a sportswear brand, and Tesla, a maker of electric ...

Dyson first used this technique to treat wheat, and is now spraying other crops including oilseed rape (known as canola in America), maize and potatoes. The company reckons it is seeing a reduction of ...

Increasingly the Chinese palette is craving spice. Last year Meituan, China’s biggest food-delivery app, reported that nearly 80% of restaurants now offer spicy fare, a taste known as la in Chinese.

Lawrence Wong, the finance minister and deputy prime minister, will take the reins of the city-state’s government on May 15th. The country does not churn through prime ministers: he will be just the ...

D onald Trump’s criminal trial, soon to enter its fifth week, has felt like drawn-out foreplay. There have been moments of frisson. But as with any such encounter that stretches ...

Now a group of scientists have found another use for these contraptions: keeping future Moon-dwellers fit. In a paper in Royal Society Open Science, they propose that astronauts living on NASA ’s ...

I N RECENT YEARS the manufacture of blades for wind turbines has undergone a revolution, as it were. Two decades ago lengths of 40 metres or so were an achievement. Thanks largely to lighter and ...

W HEN HAMAS announced, on the evening of May 6th, that it had agreed to a ceasefire with Israel, the mood in Rafah turned ...