In April the education ministry said that it had revoked 12,200 degree programmes in recent years, mainly in soft subjects ...

Fraser McIlwraith, our foreign correspondent, explains why talks between Israel and Lebanon are unlikely to yield productive ...

Linked to a free bank account, the phones would bring Indonesia’s unbanked into the formal financial system, he argued. It ...

John McDermott, our chief Africa correspondent, explains why the former president is backing the M23 armed group ...

Volodymyr Zelensky met Steve Witkoff, America’s special envoy, in Norway. Ukraine’s president wants to mend relations with ...

Before long the audience were up to their beaks in it, like chickens in a flash flood.” The Daily Mail’s verdict on a recent ...

Hugo Gye, our Britain political correspondent, on the absurdity of Palestine Action ...

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on October 13th that it had arrested a Japanese journalist for spying on ...

I N ANY OTHER year, Muhammad bin Salman would be getting ready for his star turn. October 26th was supposed to be the ...

China’s GDP grew by 4.5% year on year in the third quarter, a touch higher than analysts’ expectations of 4.4%. Retail sales ...

Elon Musk pledged to give “every kid in America” one share in SpaceX, his rocketry and AI company, next year. He did not ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over the origin of the two tiny moons whirling around Mars. Phobos and Deimos look like ...