Matteo Bruno and his colleagues at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome calculated the walkability of more than ...

R unning Ecuador seems an unenviable job. In recent years it has become the most violent state in mainland Latin America.

In their different ways, Edgar and Rita were both victims of “ pig-butchering ”, the most lucrative scam in a global industry ...

The Trump administration reportedly told workers at USAID to expect their numbers to drop from 10,000 to fewer than 300.

Next comes the rest of the debris: the husks of washing machines, the chimneys standing sentry over the remains, and heaps of ...

Poaching, deforestation and other human activity caused tiger populations to collapse from 40,000 at the beginning of the ...

The American president’s erratic efforts to levy tariffs on Canadian exports have triggered a surge of patriotism in Canada.

Intermittent fasting is popular. And as a weight-loss strategy, it has several things going for it. One is that it is ...

T the Labour government has had a spluttering start since it came into power seven months ago. Trying to explain its policies ...

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Beyond a few purveyors of handbags and slimming drugs, few of its big companies compete successfully with rivals from America and China, the world’s two biggest economies. Negotiating a trade ...

China faces a “toxic combination” of deflation and devaluation which Japan did not experience. It may be a sign of greater ...