Some people then ask “how is everyone?”, forcing everyone to unmute again and say something wildly insightful like “fine”. By ...

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

Shanxi is China’s most sluggish province. Last year its economy grew by 2.3%, well below the national average of 5%. In the first half of this year, it grew by 3.8% compared with a year earlier: a ...

Most Israeli Jews thought their country was waging a just war. But since mid-July, mainstream news bulletins that had shunned ...

Perhaps the biggest threat comes from natural disasters, which climate change is making more common and intense. Take the ...

Today the reproachful frowns are aimed at “ buy now, pay later ” ( bnpl ). This practice, which lets people pay for things ...

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

Controversially, Italy’s safe-countries list includes Bangladesh and Egypt. Italian judges blocked the scheme on suspicion ...

You might hear the same argument today in Albania’s capital. One thing, however, has changed: for the first time in Albania’s ...

The real problem with this image is that Germans are losing their taste for the tipple that once defined them. On August 1st ...

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

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