The Tory leader is fascinating but irrelevant Kemi Badeoch doing a selfie on top of the Parliament. 更新于 2025-05-06 Among the identikit CVs of MPs, Kemi Badenoch’s stands out. She grew up under military rule in Nigeria, and at 16 left alone for England. Such…

Retail investors now play a useful role at times of panic People enjoying a rollercoaster ride 更新于 2025-05-06 Stockmarkets appear to have recovered their poise. By May 2nd America’s S&P 500 index had climbed back to its level of a month earlier, just before…

The US Army is keen on getting rid of obsolete kit. But there are risks A US soldier sits on the edge of a helicopter looking out. 更新于 2025-05-06 THE PENTAGON has been mired in chaos in recent months. Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defence, stands accused…

Can the two bitter enemies control a new cycle of escalation? TOPSHOT-PAKISTAN-INDIA-KASHMIR-UNREST 更新于 2025-05-06 SHORTLY AFTER midnight on May 7th, exactly two weeks after a terrorist attack in Kashmir, Indian missiles streaked into Pakistan. Pakistan’s…

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist 更新于 2025-05-07 A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Thinking about your mortgage as part of your investment portfolio might not seem intuitive. But,…

The resemblance increases over time Woman and her dog at Crufts dog show. 更新于 2025-05-07 For all the talk of dogs and humans being best friends, sometimes representatives of the two species just don’t click. Giving up an unsuitable family pet can be heartbreaking…

Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter United States President Donald J Trump 更新于 2025-05-07 Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration…

Also on the daily podcast: meeting a Brazilian judge with global ambitions and the minerals beneath Sweden’s reindeer 更新于 2025-05-07 Two weeks after a terrorist attack in Kashmir, Indian missiles streaked into Pakistan. Will the retaliation end this latest…

American tariffs are likely to accelerate bilateral trade deals Britain's Secretary of State for Business and Trade Jonathan Reynolds meets Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal for trade talks, in London. 更新于 2025-05-07 SIR KEIR STARMER hailed…

How a Supreme Court decision paved the way for more punitive policies A man skateboards past a row of homeless tents on Skid Row in Los Angeles. 更新于 2025-05-07 DAVINA VALENZUELA watches as sanitation workers heave most of her belongings into a garbage truck.…

They seem to be unstoppable housands of protesters in Haiti's capital have clashed with police as they denounce a surge in gang violence 更新于 2025-05-07 The collapse of Haiti’s government in April last year was a challenge but also an opportunity. An interim…

If only American businesses were so lucky 更新于 2025-05-07 PEER INTO a Bloomberg screen and the parallels between the past month and the spring of 2020 draw themselves. Then as now the VIX index, which tracks share-price volatility, spiked above 40, a level…

Might tariffs fall from their mountainous highs? Scott Bessent waks in the Rose Garden during an at the White House, Washington DC 更新于 2025-05-07 SWITZERLAND ALWAYS imagined it would be where the fate of the global trading system was decided. It was in Geneva…

China’s export restrictions may boost scientific innovation illustration of a crane shaped like a toy claw machine, with a yellow star-shaped magnet lifting a container ship surrounded by colorful shipping containers. The crane arm is metallic with yellow…

In guinea pigs it can weaken muscles important for hearing Illustration of a guinea pig with headphones. 更新于 2025-05-07 The fictional band Spinal Tap could make their instruments louder with the help of amplifiers that went up to 11. Lesser musicians must…

One diminutive design is aimed at children Kawasaki’s off-road personal mobility vehicle Corleo. 更新于 2025-05-07 In a break from tradition, Kawasaki, a Japanese motorcycle maker, has announced plans to build a new breed of off-road machine shaped like a robotic…

Our podcast on science and technology. Researchers are racing to uncover why rates of cancer have been dramatically increasing in people under the age of 50 Female doctor and young woman during Mammography test in examination room. 更新于 2025-05-07 The number…

Sooner or later, the luck will run out A Pakistani Ranger stands guard at the scene of India's missile strike in Muridke, Punjab, Pakistan, May 7th 2025 更新于 2025-05-07 THE spectacle of India and Pakistan teetering on the threshold of war and then backing…

Despite a late start, the American firm is bearing down on its Danish rival Wegovy injection pens on a desk in sunlight. 更新于 2025-05-07 Being first to market with a drug can be crucial. Eli Lilly is proving that being second but better can also pay. Zepbound…

Will this year’s event buck the trend? 更新于 2025-05-07 ON MAY 9th Russia will mark 80 years since Nazi Germany’s defeat in the second world war. President Vladimir Putin has invited dozens of foreign leaders to Moscow for the annual military parade, including…