They have seized about 140 children from Lev Tahor, a fringe, ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect that has long faced charges of child ...

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

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

Ms Sheinbaum (pictured) won praise at home and abroad for her handling of her mercurial American counterpart. Throughout the ...

Mr Trump’s new trade barriers will be a blow not only to American consumers, but also to the e-commerce companies that have ...

The front lines in the war between Russia and Ukraine are now saturated with surveillance drones livestreaming video footage ...

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

Whatever its geopolitical merits, the madman theory transfers badly to economics. Crazy leaders are hard to predict.

T he ink had barely dried on Donald Trump’s order to impose a 10% tariff on imports from China before its leader, Xi Jinping, ...

Mr Kao is the highest-ranking veteran of Taiwan’s armed forces to have been accused of spying for China, but he is not the ...

DONALD TRUMP likes oil—and oilmen. He gushes about “liquid gold” with as much ferocity as Spindletop, an oil well that spat ...