Anne Carson, a Canadian poet who shared top odds with Can Xue, a Chinese novelist, won the Nobel prize in literature. The ...

Life’s too short not to eat the food that you love”, reads a sign above one of the stalls. So Colombians evidently believe. A ...

A SKED about predictions that Iran’s economy faced imminent collapse, Abdolnasser Hemmati, its central-bank governor, reached for a Persian proverb: chickens are counted at the end of autumn. Maybe so ...

T HE END of an era in Brazil may also mark the moment a dynasty truly established its hold. On October 4th Brazil’s ruling ...

Field Marshal Asim Munir, the Trump-flattering head of Pakistan’s armed forces, reportedly wants to do away with his ...

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An adaptation of it was among the first Western films shown in China after the death of Mao in 1976. President Xi Jinping ...

Pensioner preoccupations like leaving the European Union were pursued no matter the damage. Bungs such as free TV licences ...

T he past few days have been gruelling for many people in China. The weeklong National Day holiday, which ended on October ...

W hen Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison accepts his Nobel prize for physics later this year, he will ...

Ethiopia claims that Eritrea, its neighbour to the north, backs the rebels, and that Eritrean soldiers took part in the ...

T he Green Party conference got off to a characteristically odd start. Zack Polanski, the leader, bounded onstage to ...