Today the marches are smaller and, more importantly, climate policies are being rolled back. The Economist recently called this reversal a “greenlash”, noting that fossil-fuel-driven business-as-usual ...

In a bonus edition of our defence newsletter, Richard Cockett takes us back to 1066—and the Battle of Hastings ...

Each subsequent chapter takes readers to a different graveyard. Her wandering leads her from Cuba to Chile to the Czech Republic. She goes to the grand tombs of Highgate Cemetery in London and to ...

I T’S EVERY New Yorker’s lament: the city is full of yellow cabs, except when you really need one. And so, when Curtis Sliwa ...

It’s a vocabulary that would sound alien coming from Mr Farage. He thrives on confrontation. Remember when he stood in front of that infamous UKIP billboard showing a long queue of mainly dark-skinned ...

The claim is that all these vices overstimulate the brain’s dopamine system, causing it to become ”less responsive” and leaving people disillusioned and burnt out. A few weeks of abstinence, ...

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Heat-related deaths now make up more than 3% of mortalities in 26 countries, mostly in Africa and the Middle East. In ...

Horror movies make up one-fifth of the 20 highest-grossing titles worldwide. As of early October, horror films have made more ...

M ore than three years ago Yamagami Tetsuya (pictured) shocked Japan by killing Abe Shinzo, a former prime minister. As his ...

Bassem Youssef (pictured), an exiled comedian once forced to flee his homeland for mocking its rulers, is back, at least virtually, delighting his compatriots with pungent interviews on a TV channel ...

In September it appeared in Nepal, where youngsters hoisted it during protests against nepotism and corruption that toppled ...