Melting ice could make shorter transits between Asia and Europe a reality but there are economic and geopolitical risks ...

Seaweed diversity and biomass are declining in many regions around the world, says Jason Hall-Spencer, professor of marine biology at Plymouth university. His recent study with colleagues in China ...

Multilateral financial institutions have issued about $2bn worth of blue bonds to date, according to S&P Global Ratings. The World Bank Group and the Inter-American Development Bank have both issued a ...

By calling on troops to suppress protests in Los Angeles on Sunday, Donald Trump has shown he is willing to put the country on a war footing — and test the boundaries of executive power — to achieve ...

Syria is preparing to rejoin the international banking system, and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s rightwing ...

There are two distinct sets of problems with the pension system of today. The first is that current and future pensioners now ...

Japanese materials and equipment suppliers, such as JSR, Advantest and Tokyo Electron, are indispensable cogs in the semiconductor supply chain. Deep inside data centres, smartphones and aeroplanes, ...

Dissident Shadi Haroun visits the cells where detainees were kept and speaks to prison workers in pursuit of answers ...

State and local governments worry credit for big projects could be used to offset cost of Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ ...

This monumental novel set in an impoverished ceramics village during Mao’s political and social upheaval has finally been translated into English ...

The question of succession hung heavy in the air as Carsten Coesfeld, 38, and his brother Thomas, 35, each led energetic Ted Talk-style discussions on “growth” and “transformation” last Wednesday. The ...

Support for Reform UK has surged in areas with higher rates of child poverty, underlining the right-wing populist party’s potential to connect with disillusioned voters in Labour’s heartlands.