The Taliban were supposed to remain in the diplomatic doghouse until they abandoned their abhorrent treatment of women and ...

F OUR OF THE five priciest transfers in European football this summer involved England’s cash-soaked Premier League. The fifth was more unusual. Victor Osimhen, a Nigerian strik ...

But the cia officer in question, along with two others involved in that 2016 report, Shelby Pierson and Vinh Nguyen, are some of the most senior serving career intelligence officials to be purged ...

An obvious plot offers itself to the deft diplomat: could Europe, the continental home of the Nobel prizes, dangle the ...

This does not mean that Britain is “lawless”, as the government’s critics complain. But both are signs of something worrying: a criminal enterprise that spans the world, but is flourishing most in ...

An unholy combination of disease, climate change and poor farming practices in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, where about 70% of ...

Washington does have a say in the choice of president. The 23rd Amendment, ratified in 1961, gives it the same number of electoral votes—three—as the least-populous state. If Washington cast those ...

Commercial skiing in South America goes back decades. The first resort to open was Portillo, in Chile, in 1949, and the ...

But physiological changes in pregnancy—such as a faster metabolism, greater heat production, and heavier demands on the heart—make expectant women particularly vulnerable to higher temperatures, with ...

Despite unease over his Islamist past, most Syrians rallied behind Ahmed al-Sharaa, their new leader. Over the summer, ...

That marks the end of nearly 20 years of MAS rule, and assures a rightward tilt for the country’s politics in October. ■ Sign ...

Turning up for class would help. Fully 23% of white British children were persistently absent last year, compared with 4% for ethnic Chinese. The Education Policy Institute, a think-tank, finds that ...