NATO allies have quarrelled before, but never quite like this. Donald Trump’s pursuit of Greenland—and his willingness to use intimidation and economic coercion to get it—could deal a deathblow to the ...

T he border between Israel and Lebanon bears the scars of its most recent war. On the Lebanese side, the village of Mais al-Jabal—used by Hizbullah, an Iran-backed militia, to l ...

Our results show that around halfway through the first week of the conflict the fighting entered a new phase. One change is that Iran’s counter-punches have become less effective: both fewer in number ...

After its invasion of Ukraine in 2022 Russia bought and improved them (as the Geran-2). It has since churned out tens of ...

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P RINTED ON TREADMILLS and exercise bikes in gyms around the world is a simple method for estimating the maximum rate at which your heart should safely beat, in beats per minute: ...

This week’s Insider episode will be released later than usual, on Friday at 6pm London time (1pm in New York) rather than Thursday. As AI becomes the defining technology of the 21st century, a fierce ...

Elites should stop assuming that the barriers to progress are the same from Brazil to Bangladesh, writes Alice Evans ...

The Age of Innocence. By Edith Wharton. Barnes & Noble; 336 pages; $8.95. Penguin Books Ltd; 336 pages; £8.99. Before she began publishing novels, the author wrote about design, particularly interiors ...

Mr Nobody Against Putin”, a documentary that won a BAFTA and is up for an Oscar on March 15th, is ostensibly a study in propaganda and patriotism. Its real power, however, comes from its approach to a ...

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It is naive to think that escalating conflict in Iran will lead to anything good, writes Spain’s prime minister ...