Brazil is blessed. Its proven reserves of oil are huge and growing. Within its borders the world’s largest river, the Amazon, flows through its greatest rainforest. More than half of Brazil’s ...

Many of the law’s new rules will be introduced gradually. Makers of packaging have until 2028 to introduce standardised labels showing the materials in their products and how to dispose of them.

Britain’s new chancellor has learned from the mistakes of Rachel Reeves, his predecessor. In her first speech on the job she complained of inheriting “the worst set of circumstances since the second ...

The theory could help explain Italy’s strangely low rate of fentanyl overdoses. In 2024 the synthetic opiate, which is about 100 times stronger than morphine, was detected in just two fatal ...

W hen Jeff Miller, a writer from New Jersey, moved to Massachusetts, he was denied a driving licence for being a felon. But he was not a felon. He had been confused with another Jeff Miller, born on ...

Neck and neck in the polls are Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the 80-year-old incumbent known as Lula, and Flávio Bolsonaro, the ...

ON SEPTEMBER 22ND France accomplished something that Viktor Orban, Hungary’s former leader, had attempted for years without success. It strong-armed the European Union into lifting sanctions on ...

This dearth of revolutionary momentum is not for lack of zeal among the true believers on the populist left. Two dozen parties wed to class-struggle ideology across Europe have kept themselves busy ...

W HEN NAJIB RAZAK was going through a tough time as Malaysia’s prime minister back in 2015, he knew he could count on a few ...

AI is so “unprecedented”, says Steven Pinker, a professor at Harvard, that we cannot tell how, or whether, it will affect the English language. Happily there is a body of evidence dating back a few ...

Although the chancellor is prone to exaggerate the scale of his modest proposals, his dwindling band of supporters appreciate his commitment to them. Yet navigating the reforms through the Bundestag ...

F or years from afar I have respected the Lib Dems for their Socratic dedication to doubt.” That declaration by Emily, a new member of the Liberal Democrats addressing the pa ...