MUSICIANS OFTEN like to claim that their art crosses frontiers and smashes barriers. Although still in his early 30s, Jacob Mühlrad, a Swedish composer, has already done much to turn that article of ...

The announcements add to a spate of similar ones in the past month or so from America’s tech titans. Open AI, the startup which is part-owned by Microsoft and which created Chat GPT, an AI ...

WHAT’S THE TIME in Lebanon? Until March 29th the answer will largely depend on your religion. On March 26th the country would normally have set its clocks forward to daylight saving time (DST), as is ...

By slashing interest rates, even in the face of galloping prices, and thereby allowing the lira to plummet, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, hoped to turbocharge the country’s economy by ...

Boyko Borisov (pictured), a burly conservative, dominated Bulgaria’s political life from 2009 to 2021. His GERB party is pro-Western in a country where Russia is widely admired. His tenure as prime ...

The race has become the most expensive judicial election in the country—with at least $30m spent by partisan operatives on television ads—precisely because Wisconsin voters expect their Supreme Court ...

Climate change calls for a bold and swift transformation of the economy. Vladimir Putin has weaponised trade for geopolitical gain, fuelling fears that Xi Jinping, too, may one day do the same.

The sell-off started with Deutsche Bank, a German lender that has, over the years, been dogged by trouble. Its credit-default swaps, tradable insurance against defaults on a bank’s debt, jumped to ...

This hunger is the deadliest in Somalia since the famine of 2010-11, which claimed 260,000 lives. And it will get worse before it gets better. Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical ...

Consumers are forecast to spend $185bn on games this year, five times what they will spend at the cinema and 70% more than they will allocate to streamers like Netflix. Once a children’s hobby, gaming ...

Consultants have long tried to model and optimise business processes for corporate clients. But their abstract models rarely reflected the complex reality. To get a better view, two things needed to ...

Train Services” and the less-than-thrilling “Present Method of Handling Freight Traffic”. In cool, calm prose it explained how Britain’s future methods of handling freight and people would be ...