The scale of the bycatch slaughter is a key factor in helping build global support for BBNJ. Another hugely harmful practice ...

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Some households would face even steeper increases. Premium payments vary with age, location and income; and some subsidies ...

Some two-thirds of Ghanaians favour giving divine intervention a role in politics, so the videos were alarming enough to ...

Weekly edition of The Economist for Jan 3rd 2026. You've seen the news, now discover the story.

Vanke, a state-backed property giant, is teetering on the edge of default. New home sales by floor space have fallen by half ...

In Beijing and other capitals, business bosses and officials expect to hear the phrase “China goes global” a lot in 2026.

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Assuming investors in aggregate remain rational, however, high valuations amount to a bet that corporate profits are set to ...

Besides, since taking office, Mr Trump’s most noteworthy policy on prices has been to raise them further, by adding punishing ...

The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth.