O N SEPTEMBER 4TH Colt Gray, a 14-year-old student at Apalachee High School in Georgia, shot dead two students and two ...

I N THE final days of August one of Britain’s four nuclear-armed Vanguard-class submarines—the government will not say ...

The continent needs investment on a par with the Marshall Plan and a lot more innovation, says the former central banker ...

The latest news in US politics, with coverage of President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the Democrats, Donald Trump and the ...

The authors want to boost innovation, increase funding for riskier ventures (commercial, financial or scientific) and exploit Europe’s scale by bringing together hitherto fragmented markets. In short, ...

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O N ISRAELI tactical maps the narrow corridor along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt is code-named “Philadelphi”. It is a rubble-strewn wasteland, just 14km long and around a kilometre wide ...

Last year Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s president, announced that he had scrapped the subsidy. Yet it has swiftly crept back. This year Escap, a consultancy, expects it to gobble up around 5.4trn naira ...

Astrologers have long claimed to be able to chart the fate of politicians. One advised Ronald and Nancy Reagan ahead of meetings with world leaders. Now astrologers are captivating a new generation.

Japan’s reforms mean that listed firms can no longer simply dismiss takeover attempts out of hand. That has fuelled a surge in dealmaking. Between 2013 and 2023 the number of mergers and acquisitions ...

The Perfect Couple” is one of many recent films and tv shows set there. It is a place with no fixed co-ordinates but recurring topography, a land of striking change but bedrock continuity. Moneyland ...

Nippon’s acquisition of US Steel is not the only mega-merger falling apart ...