This, at least, is the portrait drawn by the State Democracy Index, developed by Jake Grumbach, a political scientist at the ...

Hence the Trembita, which is one of several missile projects the country hopes will ignite a resurgence in its domestic ...

A key priority is the establishment of immediate sustainable, permanent ceasefires in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. A ...

O n December 23rd a congressional committee released a lurid 37-page report alleging ethical misconduct by Matt Gaetz, the ...

The horror arrived on the evening of December 20th, when a BMW ploughed through the Christmas market in Magdeburg, a city in ...

In a surprise announcement on December 11th Ethiopia and Somalia appeared to make up. After negotiations in Ankara, brokered ...

THE BRAZILIAN real holds an ignominious title this year: it is the worst-performing major currency, down by more than 20% to a record low of almost 6.3 to the dollar. The situation has grown even ...

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Yet the axolotl has become an improbable global megastar. Shops are crowded with cuddly axolotls. Toy axolotls fall out of ...

The Triassic is a tale of two histories. One is its natural history, begun after the Great Permian Dying, 252m years ago, ...

Noting that, Dr Lineweaver and a fellow physicist, Vihan Patel, devised a single chart onto which every known object in the ...