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I N YEARS GONE by, the wait for the announcement of winners of the Nobel prizes was a period of fun but largely uninformed ...

Elsewhere on the frontier, similar endeavours began in the months before Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s leader, attended a ...

So is the concentration of individual power. Four of the ten most valuable firms—Alphabet, Berkshire Hathaway, Meta and ...

Britain is not in a recession. Critics say the government crushed the private sector with tax increases in 2024, but the ...

Building has slowed in cities, where it is needed most. In London it has almost ground to a halt. In the second quarter of ...

I magine that you are a talented, young artificial-intelligence researcher weighing two offers. One comes with a fat salary, stock options and a seat in the heart of Silicon Valley; the other offers ...

A similar 59% of Ukrainians, says the Ukraine Rating Group, would accept a compromise on a de facto loss of territory, if ...

For Europe to threaten to cut off Ukraine would be empty. Instead it must coax and cajole, appealing to Mr Zelensky’s ...

For decades, financial advisers had suggested to retail investors that they take more risk when young, investing heavily in ...

I t is difficult, in Dubai, to avoid the enthusiasm for property. Not a day goes by without the announcement of a new ...

The kingdom poured money into Pakistan’s coffers; Pakistan reciprocated with protection in the form of troops, training and ...