A lot more research needs to be done, says Dr Bennett. The gene variant highlighted by the study is common; it is found in 45 ...

Developers, governments, startups and utilities around the world are turning former fossil-fuel power stations, and old oil ...

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Vladimir Putin, who met Mr Trump in Alaska on August 15th, wants Ukraine to hand over unoccupied land in the eastern Donbas ...

The world’s biggest market is less central in global trade today than it once was. At the start of the century, America ...

When J.D. Vance, America’s vice-president, visited Britain this summer, doyens of the British right recommended that Mr ...

CARRIE BRADSHAW has skipped across Manhattan in Manolo Blahniks for the last time. On August 14th “And Just Like That…” ...

Democrats are searching for a positive vision to inspire voters, and leading the pack, at least among party elites, is the ...

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For such star pupils, late-20th-century globalisation felt like a form of meritocracy. Hard work and wise planning could give ...

Built in tsarist times to show off the glory of the Russian empire, the hall was the setting for Mr Putin’s account of his ...

These young American soldiers are unabashedly feminine and unexpectedly cheerful. It is a long way from the macho military ...