
Massachusetts has become the 10th US state in which abortion has effectively been legalized up to birth. The change marks another …

Bitcoin is rising even though a large portion of the market has bet on it falling further. If it holds at the $72,000 level, this …

France spent €1bn on state communications in 2024. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu wants to cut €300m – but the real probl…

Claude has designed proteins that work in laboratory tests. The results offer an early glimpse of how AI could accelerate drug dis…

In the classic Trumpian idiom, America's debt is now bigger than ever before. Unless urgent action is taken, a world-historic econ…

Protests continue across Ukraine against President Volodymyr Zelensky's decision to dismiss the country's popular defense minister…

Bernd Prange has spent 35 years in Germany’s Christian Democrats. Now he has given €10,000 to the AfD, called for an absolute majo…

China produces more than half the world’s farmed aquatic animals. AI and automation promise cleaner food production, but pollution…

The EU was built around the free movement of goods across national borders. New packaging rules risk making that promise prohibiti…

The threatened exodus of wealth from New York has yet to materialize. Instead, property owners are taking the mayor to court while…

A succession of government data breaches is raising serious questions about France’s ability to protect the vast amounts of person…

Having spent years complaining that rich proprietors should not decide what the public gets to read, parts of the Green movement h…

A week before Buckingham Palace announced King Charles’s cancer diagnosis, Queen Camilla visited a cancer support center knowing t…

Germany says it needs more workers to rescue its aging economy. Yet one in ten 20-to-24-year-olds is outside both work and educati…

Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger are set to acquire the Lakers at a record $12.5bn valuation. The deal shows how profoundly the economi…

After two horrific car crashes in a week involving young people driving against traffic on main roads, our leaders have found some…

Facial-recognition trials at London railway stations have so far produced no results. But the technology changes the nature of pol…

US economists have crunched the numbers. At current birth rates, humanity is headed for a crisis. But there is good news: the Rise…

As Mélenchon denounces white, Catholic France, he is staking his presidential ambitions on the country’s demographic transformatio…

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed a bill relaxing the rules on abortions after the 24th week. Two days later, surrogate m…

The threat posed by the tradwife phenomenon is considered serious enough that Ireland has proposed a five-year plan to tackle this…

France’s Constitutional Council upheld the euthanasia law but imposed three safeguards that could protect vulnerable patients and …

Annalena Baerbock joined a UN tribute to fallen staff, only for one of those honored to emerge as a Hamas commander. Germany's for…

Decision-makers debate legalization and enforcement, but neither addresses the loneliness, nihilism and lack of purpose driving ma…

Warning labels for AI-generated content make sense. But should they also apply when artificial intelligence is used to create sati…

More than 200 German lawmakers want every adult to become a potential organ donor unless they object. Germany’s shortage is severe…