In a failing British prison system there is one place that works. That helps criminals like Mr Smith to reform and ...

Despite the setbacks, most Americans now have a favourable view of Obamacare (see chart 6). Polling showed that favourability ...

T HE GERMAN state of North Rhine-Westphalia has long provided bodyguards to Armin Papperger. But since American and German ...

Yet researchers mostly concur that vaping is less harmful than smoking. Of the more than 7,000 substances generated by ...

In the amount of pushback and controversy it has faced, “Snow White” is unusual. But in another way the film reflects a ...

Criminality is the prevailing theme of this week’s selection ...

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Perhaps Ukraine would hold the answers. With so many wounded – tens of thousands of amputees, people suffering from ...

As seals dive more frequently—and for longer—than humans do, the range of carbon dioxide in their bodies varies more widely.

Yet Chinese labour law still says nothing about ageism. Many firms continue to stipulate in job ads that those over 35 need ...

With that demand Mr Trump crossed a new boundary in any president’s testing of constitutional limits, as evidenced by the ...

China filed patents for the new barges in 2020, notes Mike Dahm, a former naval intelligence officer. They resemble the ...