President Donald Trump has for months sought interest-rate cuts in spite of tariff-driven inflation, only to be met with ...

China’s innovation chains often start with grants for researchers, who find a placement in state-backed labs. These in turn ...

Many countries use exit bans to prevent people accused of crimes from escaping justice, but the bar is usually high. In China ...

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The global ai race is defined by competing approaches, led by America and China. On one side is a nimble ecosystem of tech ...

L ike many politicians running for office, Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old New York Democratic mayoral candidate, is partly a ...

H olidaymakers, including American vice-presidents, are drawn to rural Britain partly because it seems to change so little.

Such projections, though, now have been foiled by India’s government. On August 21st India’s parliament passed a bill banning ...

This month’s summits between America, Russia and Europe haves produced no concrete agreements on ending Ukraine’s war. On ...

As is well known to the 5m radio listeners who followed the harvest over several days in early August, the background to this ...

Automation is also tricky: robots are good at putting together a specific item but struggle to recognise and take apart the ...

The Chinese Communist Party, however, does not approve of the look. People’s Daily, a party mouthpiece, recently lamented the ...