When Manchester Town Hall opened in 1877 it was not just a magnificent ornament for a confident city. It also proclaimed to ...

In a few early June days, underlying assumptions about Ukraine and Russia were shaken in three ways. On June 1st Ukraine ...

Pete Hegseth, a former army major and now America’s defence secretary, celebrates soldiers “with dust on their boots”. But ...

Badar, Fauzia and Karim—three people from different walks of life—come of age in Tanzania. The author’s first novel since ...

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Cyclists are understandably miffed. It is “insane”, says Carl Mahaney of Open Plans, an advocacy group, since most deaths and ...

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E VER SINCE the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds in the 1940s, debate has raged over their exact age.

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H is finger ink-stained from voting, Wagirin Tjokrosetiko, a 62-year-old driver of Javanese descent, has a simple reason for ...

More than three decades on, Mr Kagame has gone from the darling of donors to Africa’s arch-exponent of realpolitik. He has ...

If Germany is to pay for much needed investments in defence and infrastructure, this needs to change, reckons Clemens Fuest, ...