FROM THE moment he stepped off his plane onto the red-carpeted tarmac, the summit in Alaska was a triumph for Vladimir Putin.

What Intel needs more than new board members is customers for its manufacturing, or “foundry”, arm. They have not been ...

Dozens of studies have been run on the potential health effects of sit-stand desks. A recent review, led by María Eugenia ...

But European cities appear to suffer more than cities in other rich regions even when peak temperatures are similar. Data from Kai Chen, of the Yale School of Public Health, and his colleagues shows ...

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We have no idea how many second-world-war veterans returned with PTSD. The only statistics we have were gathered 40 years ...

Europe quietly revels in being a lifestyle superpower, with better food and longer life expectancy than America. But it is also an anxious place these days. The two months since June 21st—the ...

I t was born as the Islamic Resistance Movement. It is more usually known by its Arabic acronym, Hamas. But talks taking ...

AMOC is part of a system of currents which move heat around the oceans of the world. It delivers a stupendous flow of that ...

No understanding of Germany is complete without an account of the Vereine (clubs or associations) latticed across the land.

Of America’s five big security partners in the region (Australia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan) discussions ...

But Hong Kongers took it particularly seriously. Several prominent feng-shui masters, experts in ancient Chinese geomancy, ...