IT HAD ALL the ingredients of an internet hit: star power, good timing—and cats. Minutes after the presidential debate ...

Found: a new prime minister. Wanted: a new government. President Emmanuel Macron’s appointment of Michel Barnier as France’s ...

Our global cover this week looks at the mess that could follow America’s vote. After election night, complexity will meet ...

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Bangladesh stopped exporting the fish to India between 2012 and 2022 over a water-sharing dispute. But it usually made an ...

Norway’s GDP per person is $94,600, some 11% higher than America’s. The country’s unemployment rate is 2%. Growth, though ...

When China’s ruler, Xi Jinping, began calling for “common prosperity” in 2021, he made investors nervous. The stated goal was ...

Not long ago America’s main concern with sovereign-wealth funds was how to regulate these large pools of money controlled by ...

After the election of 2020, but before Congress had certified the outcome, Mr Raffensperger received a now-infamous phone call from Donald Trump, who was president at the time, asking for help to ...

The latest news in US politics, with coverage of President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the Democrats, Donald Trump and the Republicans plus daily updates about the 2024 US election.

The question now is whether bonds can keep up their rare winning streak. Should share prices start plunging once more, the answer will be “yes”. During a crash, bonds are less vulnerable than stocks: ...

In recent months, though, the industry has been fraying at the seams. A months-long crackdown on student-led protests, which included a brutally imposed curfew, curtailed economic activity. Even after ...