Can Brazil’s left survive without Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva?
Since leaving hospital in December, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula (pictured), has cut a smart figure. Brazil’s pre...
Genetic engineering could help rid Australia of toxic cane toads
THIS WEEK, between January 18th and 27th, thousands of volunteers in a band of territory stretching across north-eastern Aust...
Germans are world champions of calling in sick
Historically Germany has been a world champion of the rights of workers related to their health. In 1883 Otto von Bismarck, c...
It’s a good time to be an astrologer in China
YOUNG PEOPLE have always come to Ms Xia with questions about their relationships. Now they often ask the astrologer about the...
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 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 ...
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...
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...
Donald Trump’s America will not become a tech oligarchy
WHAT NATION can you fit into the Capitol Rotunda? Answer: somewhere between a Portugal and a Thailand. Each country’s total h...