An error-filled post increases nuclear dangers ...

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From 1995: Microsoft's new edition of Windows will no doubt be a “success”. But it is unlikely to change the industry as ...

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 ...