On March 3rd and 4th this year just 47 flights crossed the same stretch of sky. Flights in and out of the Gulf’s transport hubs remain well below normal. In January Dubai’s airport claimed the title ...

Jon Fasman, our senior culture correspondent, explores the making of a national pastime in an age of immigration and industrialisation ...

Technological change, streaming services and fewer productions are making it harder for actors to earn a living.

All this gives Haiti its best chance in years to restore something resembling calm. But reviving a minimally functional state will require much more than blowing up gangsters. Haiti needs a government ...

Most people can agree, for example, that AI will be doing workers a tremendous favour if it gets rid of grunt work, the sort of tediously repetitive tasks that take up too much of everyone’s days.

Behind a veneer of modesty—he once drove to his seminary in a battered Paykan, Iran’s first mass-produced car—he is said to control a vast, tax-free empire of conglomerates. The reality may lie ...

Stock markets struggle to price artificial intelligence's impact, with Goldman Sachs indices showing AI-vulnerable firms down 20% while beneficiaries fall 5%.

Daniel Kurtzer, then America’s ambassador in Tel Aviv, recalls dispatching a cable to Colin Powell, then the secretary of state, before the war summarising the views he was consistently hearing from ...

America’s war with Iran has given him more scope. Turkey has opposed the war from the start. It threatens to disrupt trade ...

Now the 60-year-old “Anatolian Swabian”, as he dubs himself, has led the Greens to a surprise victory over the conservative Christian Democrats (cdu) in his home state of Baden-Württemberg on March ...

The Bank of England will put animals on its next banknotes instead of divisive historical figures, with the hedgehog emerging as the ideal choice for Britain.

Lloyd Blankfein’s memoir “Streetwise” recounts his rise to become the chief of executive of Goldman Sachs and his leadership during the financial crisis of 2007-09.