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The cold-hearted world of scamming is big business. American consumers lost more than $12.5bn to cyber-fraud last year, ...

A quarter of “The Great Gatsby” has passed before, at one of his lavish parties, Jay Gatsby bumps into Nick Carraway, the ...

Consider it—or one of the other four titles on this list—for your weekend viewing. “Black Bag” (In cinemas worldwide) Steven ...

Public-health experts caution that the evidence of harm is thin, and fluoridated tap water keeps teeth healthy. But is it ...

From Korea to Cuba, America has been at its best diplomatically when it has encouraged its friends to be candid ...

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The violence in Alawite areas is one sign of Syria’s fragmentation. In the north, Kurdish groups have their own enclaves and ...

Now that Europe wants to be insulated from global shocks, invest to make its economy greener and rearm quickly in order to ...

After America imposed a 25% tariff on steel and aluminium on March 12th, it said it would charge punitive levies on €8bn ...

The existence of Manus makes this cautious approach harder to sustain, however. As the previously wide gap between big AI ...

A FRICA HAS a new breadbasket—or so says Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister. Thanks to a state-led programme of ...