The researchers’ method was straightforward enough. The Congressional Budget Office ( CBO) estimated the impact of the bill ...

F or the past couple of years much of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, was reduced to rubble by demolitions. Now luxury ...

The money will allow the business, with operations including a mine in California and a factory in Texas, to dramatically ...

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But the main reason is rage against the algorithm. The analogue trend is a celebration of the old ways of making things amid ...

C hina’s one-child policy was not only cruel; it was a failure. Decades of shackling women to beds and forcing them to ...

It is one of a trio of new works, alongside Gordon Corera’s “The Spy in the Archive” and Tim Weiner’s “The Mission”, which ...

Ministers from both the Conservative and the Labour parties must now explain why they kept secret for 683 days not just an ...

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Indians now jet across the country for concerts and cricket matches. “Spiritual tourism” is also in vogue, leading hotels to ...

The rising median age of people around the world has the same effect, since cancer can take decades to develop and therefore ...

I N 1971 RICHARD NIXON, then America’s president, announced a “war on cancer”. Just two years earlier the Apollo programme ...