Africa—which covers an area larger than America, China, India, Japan and western Europe combined—is more than its coup belt.

The data show a correlation between women’s economic agency and reduced poverty, and experts consider such agency essential to food security. What’s more, it fuels growth: new figures from Eurasia ...

An embarrassing ejection looked to be on the cards as soon as Mr McCarthy won the speaker’s gavel in January. As part of an agreement with recalcitrant Republicans after 15 rounds of voting, Mr ...

F OR 73 YEARS Turkey has been a member of the Council of Europe, the organisation established in 1949, long before there was a European Union, to protect fundamental human rights on European soil in ...

Sisi, Egypt’s military dictator, tried out a bleak slogan for his upcoming election. “If the price of the nation’s progress and prosperity is hunger and thirst, then let us not eat or drink,” he said.

I NSIDE ATOMS, things move fast. An electron zooms around a nucleus, changing its position or energy in mere fractions of an attosecond. An attosecond is a billionth of a billionth of a second—a unit ...

On September 30th the AU agreed to pause the drawdown for three months after a last-minute plea from Somalia, according to ...

She also looked after her mother, who lived with them and was so old that she could remember the second world war. She liked to tell the story of how she found a tank in their courtyard and a German ...

People who have not been to the Conservative Party’s annual conference might assume that the “conference” bit is what matters. For Tory members, though, this is all about the party. A conference does ...

Throughout the power station sand-filled bastions surround key pieces of machinery to protect them from shrapnel but, says ...

In 1990 about 30% of workers in the rich world were in industrial jobs, broadly defined. Now about 20% are. Over the same ...

H IS FAMILY wanted him to become a doctor. But the devastation of the Bengal famine of 1943, which killed between 2m and 3m people, put M.S. Swaminathan on a different path. A follower of Mohandas ...