Bukele, the authoritarian leader of El Salvador, has agreed to hold deportees from the US in a notorious maximum-security prison known as CECOT in exchange for a fee. The Trump administration has ...

Western carmakers will fight back against domestic rivals in China this week, launching new software and intelligence ...

Rather than play this futile and ultimately self-destructive game of telling the OBR what it wants to hear so that the numbers fit, let’s just narrow the scope of its responsibilities. The OBR’s ...

As a result of its excellent record as a fiscal watchdog and official forecaster, the OBR ranks among the most highly regarded independent fiscal institutions worldwide.

When giving a title to a film of the life of the last King of America, producers alighted on The Madness of King George and avoided the suffix III, for fear US audiences might think it a finale to a ...

In fact, the practice of science involves a daily confrontation with the unknown: it is a process of analysis, experimentation, and, above all, failure. Certainly, scientists hope to find the truth ...

Parallels are being drawn between the US tariff war and the external shock that kick-started the Indian economy in 1991 ...

Also in today’s newsletter, an interview with South Korea’s acting president, and Trump’s trade war hits New York’s Chinatown ...

Gulf state expects move will speed up lawmaking by 70% but experts warn of ‘reliability’ issues with artificial intelligence ...

The Israeli military has admitted to “professional failures” and said it would sack an officer, after an incident in which ...

And this week a lot of such people will be in Washington for the annual IMF and World Bank spring meetings. Economics will be earning its moniker of the dismal science given the current Trump tariff ...

Trump administration floats closure of African embassies in draft executive order but Marco Rubio calls proposal a ‘hoax’ ...