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Wednesday: Harry Truman and George H.W. Bush both enjoyed pitching horseshoes. Bush did it with such luminaries as Boris ...

In Rafah, a city at the very south of the Gaza Strip, the first floor of a health clinic was being used as a hub for ...

In a way that seems almost self-exemplifying, the idea provided a new way of looking at science itself: not as one thing, but ...

BP is not the only driller betting big on South America, which last year produced around two-fifths as much crude oil as ...

McDonald’s shares lost 16% of their value between January and July, their worst half-yearly run since the global financial ...

On August 3rd Tesla’s board handed Mr Musk an insurance policy. If his old package is not revived, he can cash in new options ...

That same day Donald Trump posted on social media a letter he sent to the former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who ...

Acquisition talks carried on. A tidy takeover suited Panama and the United States. Only once the Chinese government made its ...

For some the video was yet another warning sign that Islam in Malaysia is growing more austere. Malaysian Muslims have turned ...

More than two years after it began in April 2023, the war in Sudan shows no sign of ending, with deadly consequences for the ...

Yet when the cabinet voted in July to force all 2m people in the Gaza Strip into a tiny “humanitarian city”, indefinitely and ...