S peaking from the White House on September 29th Donald Trump said it was “potentially one of the great days ever in civilisation”, a day which could lead to “eternal peace.

He completed his book soon after Mao’s Cultural Revolution erupted, timing that gave him a measure of stoicism about China’s development. He felt “better equipped”, in his words, to hold a patient ...

On September 24th last year China’s officials decided to engineer a rally in the moribund stockmarket. The central bank, flanked by financial regulators, cut interest rates and bank reserve ...

Mysterious and—like the lives of many rebels, Romantics and rock stars—short. In 1593, when he was 29, Marlowe was stabbed in the eye in a shady brawl. The killer was pardoned; speculation about the ...

The restrictions apply to food designated as high in saturated fat, salt and sugar (or HFSS ). More than 20% of food-and-drink purchases in British supermarkets are HFSS. Online, 60% of food-and-drink ...

After decades in the wilderness, military ballooning is taking off again. It originally flourished after the Montgolfier brothers invented hot-air ballooning in 1783. In 1794, for example, a French ...

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Moldova is one of the poorest countries in Europe. Over the past four years cumulative growth has been only 0.4%, with inflation running at over 7% year-on-year and an annual trade deficit amounting ...

Balloons also saw action in the American civil war, for battlefield reconnaissance, and the Franco-Prussian war, for communication between besieged Paris and the outside world, and were extensively ...

Stablecoins, like money-market funds, project security but can collapse under pressure. Governments may then feel compelled to bail out holders to protect small businesses and households, to prevent ...

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