Critics are dismayed. Some worry firms are pushing immature technology onto vulnerable couples. Others say that even if the tech works, its use is immoral. Both arguments contain kernels of truth; ...

The balance of power in oil markets may shift again. For a while, once the Gulf crisis abates, there could be a “superglut” ...

Yet surely European integration is about more than summits and regulation (right?). Those who make Europe feel like a single ...

The study, published in the Lancet, a British medical journal, offers the most comprehensive estimate to date of mental disorders’ prevalence in China, with 191m cases in 2023 (equivalent to about one ...

Japan was no doubt grateful. But it would be wrong to think of it as a helpless naïf. On the contrary, in teaming up with Japan’s government, America was joining forces with one of the biggest ...

Britain now averages three times as many days breaching 30°C than it did 60 years ago. This summer is likely to be the warmest since records began in 1884. The country is on a sweltering trajectory.

V ladimir Putin will not end his war on Ukraine until he believes the costs of fighting on exceed the costs of stopping. The ...

C ould Moldova disappear? It has happened before: in 1918, just after separating from the collapsing Russian Empire, Moldova’s parliament voted to join neighbouring Romania. Tod ...

There is no evidence that vaccines cause autism. Nor is there evidence that spreading out vaccines is beneficial. In fact, doing so increases the window in which kids are vulnerable to infection.

Focusing on Russia, the legislation involves both a sanctions scalpel and a tariff sledgehammer. It imposes sanctions on Russian officials, oligarchs, banks, the defence industry and energy ...

W estern Europe is facing its fifth heatwave this year, and the waters of the Rhine and Danube rivers are the lowest since official records began in 1880. The gauge in Kaub, a med ...

Iowa has voted solidly Republican at the state and federal level for more than a decade. Republicans have dominated the state legislature since 2016; no Democrat has won the governorship since 2006, a ...