The fate of a ranting driver raises doubts about the “new” Uzbekistan
THE JAILING of dissenters is nothing new in Uzbekistan, Central Asia’s most populous country, where faulting the president ca...
The Pope and Italy’s prime minister tussle over Donald Trump
Conflicting SIGNALS are reaching the new American administration from Rome. And some carry a whiff of incense. While Italy’s ...
The weekly cartoon
Dig deeper President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havocTrump takes America’s trade policies back to the 19th ...
Three big lawsuits against Meta in Kenya may have global implications
As soon as the posts appeared on Facebook, Abrham Mearag feared they would be a “death sentence” for his father. A civil war ...
To make electricity cheaper and greener, connect the world’s grids
Norwegian politicians have had a shock. Wholesale power prices have been spiking, as wind-powered neighbours rush to import N...
Trump should try to end, not manage, the Middle East’s oldest conflicts
IT IS becoming an odd tradition: America’s secretaries of state use their final days to catalogue their failings in the Middl...
Two presidents compete over the worst abuse of the pardon power
American presidents are often disappointed to discover limits to their authority, but the country’s founders intended the nea...
Ukrainian scientists are studying downed Russian missiles
THE BACK of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise does not seem an unmissable attraction, especially o...
What a buzzy startup reveals about Britain’s biotech sector
Over the past century, two breakthroughs have changed the course of biology most. Both were Anglo-American efforts, propelled...
Why Chinese AI has stunned the world
THE WORLD’s first “reasoning model”, an advanced form of artificial intelligence, was released in September by OpenAI, an Ame...