Though the government reopened, Republicans are still stuck. The Senate is to vote as soon as next week on the future of the ...

The end of the school day is not the end of children’s immersion in AI. American teenagers are more likely to use the ...

A year ago such blasts were the soundtrack to rebel forces bearing down on the capital. Today they come from celebratory ...

Syria’s economy has been wrecked by war and sanctions. GDP is down more than 70% since 2011. Millions of people need homes, ...

As solar power makes electricity cheaper, that conundrum should ease somewhat. But it will not disappear. African utilities rarely cover their costs. In Kenya, a typical case, some 25% of juice is ...

It prompted the creation of Hong Kong’s public-housing programme, which now houses a third of the city’s residents. And in ...

A leaked video of his court-martial has suddenly appeared ...

Kyrgyzstan had, after previous experiences with strongman rule, restricted the presidency to a single term. Mr Japarov did ...

Those big matches are played in the National Cricket Stadium in St George’s, the capital. It was ostensibly a $40m gift from ...

Madeleine Sumption from Oxford University’s Migration Observatory says the new method “may pick up people who appear to have ...

In mid-November the lower house of Italy’s parliament unanimously passed a law requiring explicit consent to engage in sex, ...

Pollsters project these characteristics in each constituency, weighted according to their population, to judge how they might ...