A S HE SPEEDS down Zalaeherseh Street in Kherson, Artem, a Ukrainian soldier, points to blown-out apartments and debris. “The ...

First, they hope to show Mr Trump and his allies that there are plenty of people unhappy with how his second term is ...

Sir Keir Starmer revels in the industrial nostalgia. The prime minister calls Britain’s steelworks a part of the “heritage of ...

As a result, Asians’ fondness for gold is often attributed to cultural reasons. But India and China are culturally very ...

Another approach to estimating AI’s environmental footprint is to add up the energy use of the infrastructure used to build the models themselves. Meta’s Llama 3.1, a large language model (LLM ...

Consider AI ’s appetite for energy first. The International Energy Agency ( IEA) reckons that electricity consumption by data ...

But in CAR, where it is led by Prigozhin’s former right-hand man, Dmitri Sytyi, it is still known as Wagner – and its forces ...

On April 4th, responding to Donald Trump’s tariffs, China restricted sales to America of seven rare earths. The move forces ...

C ambodians awoke on April 3rd to learn that their exports to America would face tariffs of 49%. As they took in the news, ...

After the chaos that had followed Mr Trump’s announcement of “reciprocal” tariffs a week earlier, that is no small source of ...

There is no proof that the Chinese nationals fighting for Russia in Ukraine are state-supported. It is no surprise, however, ...

The figures are drawn from our “footloose index”, a ranking of 135 countries and territories based on their attractiveness to ...