Catch up:earthquake hits Myanmar; uncertainty around Ukraine’s minerals deal
A massive earthquake of magnitude 7.7 hit central Myanmar. Reports coming into The Economist from Mandalay, in the centre of ...
Catch up:Zelensky meets European allies; Putin on Trump’s Greenland threats
Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, met European leaders in Paris. Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, and Sir Keir Sta...
Catch up:earthquake hits Myanmar; Mark Carney responds to Trump tariffs
A massive earthquake of magnitude 7.7 hit central Myanmar. Reports coming into The Economist from Mandalay, in the centre of ...
Barnes & Noble, a bookstore, is back in the business of selling books
CENTRAL PARK bisects upper Manhattan, creating two neighbourhoods and, apparently, two reading cultures. On the Upper West Si...
Can Britons be enticed to fix their draughty homes?
BRITAIN’S STREETS of Georgian row houses and Victorian terraces may be easy on the eye but they are not easy on the wallet. T...
Can Musk put people on Mars?
HUMAN LAWS can be changed, waived or broken. Physical laws are less biddable. When it comes to putting humans on Mars, which ...
Climate change may make it harder to spot submarines
THE PENTAGON “does not do climate-change crap”, said Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s defence secretary, on March 9th. “We do tra...
Estate agents in China are trying everything to sell flats
On the list of professions that are currently flourishing in China, estate agents do not come high up. Houses were once easy ...
First, jab more babies
Foreign aid is shrinking. Rich countries are cutting their budgets for helping the world’s poor, partly because they need to ...
Five years after covid, have scientists learned their lesson?
Air-Borne. By Carl Zimmer. Dutton; 496 pages; $32. To be published in Britain by Picador in June; £25 ON MARCH 28TH 2020, as ...