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T HE TREES are cloaked in mist. In the blurry distance a man sits on horseback; another stands by his mount. Around them lie vague shapes—corpses splayed on their backs in the grass. In a cluster of ...

The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Joe Biden and the Democrats, Donald Trump and the Republicans plus daily ...

The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Joe Biden and the Democrats, Donald Trump and the Republicans plus daily ...

An obvious way to recount Jürgen Klopp’s time as manager of Liverpool, one of the grandest clubs in the world’s most popular sport, is in titles and accolades. Between his first match in 2015 and his ...

Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O’Sullivan, America’s Most Mysterious War Photographer. By Robert Sullivan. Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 464 pages; $32 THE TREES are cloaked in mist. In ...

Host clubs are booming in Japan. Some 21,000 hosts—well-dressed young men, often wearing make-up like K-pop stars—work at 900 such establishments. They pamper and flatter their female clients. Sex is ...

But Ms Nukenova’s murder has changed the equation. Last month Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the president, approved legislation to stiffen penalties for such crimes. This case has reverberated widely. Mr ...

The resulting firestorm has highlighted the growing dissatisfaction among China’s young white-collar workers with the ...

A Chinese takeover of Kinmen might not take much longer, such is the disparity in power. The boat’s owner is not keen on mainlanders fishing and dredging sand in Taiwan’s waters. But, having witnessed ...

H eat pumps, a type of reverse-refrigerator used for warming homes, are not the type of tech that gets most investors hot and bothered. They were, after all, invented in 1856. Harald Mix and Carl-Erik ...

These guileful gulpers have responded to price increases by cutting spending more than the card-carrying Starbucks members who account for the majority of orders during the morning rush (there are 33m ...