On August 23rd Jerome Powell did not disappoint. He made clear that having raised interest rates as sharply as any of the slopes in the distance, the central bank was now ready to begin the descent.

T HE AVERAGE Australian will live around two years longer than the average Briton. With Americans the gap is four. While the ...

The cracks grew deeper as a wave of protests against police brutality spread across America. Some wanted to pursue anti-racism efforts. Others felt that Circle of Hope should not concern itself with ...

KAMALA HARRIS’S acceptance speech to the Democratic National Convention on August 22nd marked the culmination of one of the most rapid and comprehensive political reinventions in modern American ...

The latest news in US politics, with coverage of President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the Democrats, Donald Trump and the Republicans plus daily updates about the 2024 US election.

Jubilant Democrats gathered in Chicago this week to anoint Kamala Harris as their nominee. But amid the pageantry and praise, what do we know about the policies Kamala Harris would pursue in the Oval ...

IN THE scheme of history, the late 1990s were—for many in the West—a kind of nirvana. The cold war was won; liberal democracy was rampant. The phantom millennium bug was as big a worry as any. In this ...

Yet, in the Letby trial, a chart was used to show that she had been on duty when babies had died or collapsed unexpectedly; ...

In the exercise scenario, it is 2032 and a war over Taiwan has been raging for 45 days. China uses “theatre” nuclear ...

Wildfires are more than a powerful visual metaphor for climate change. Data show they are increasingly fuelled by the extreme ...

According to a report from UBS, a bank, average wealth (financial and property assets minus debts) per Turkish adult ...

Thus the gloomy headlines about Poland’s population for decades. According to Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency, its ...