W hat makes a good NATO ally? Debates over burden-sharing have “moved and shaken” the alliance ever since its foundation in ...

The English have long been big consumers of wine. Britain is the world’s second-largest wine importer by value and volume.

F OR DECADES America’s fastest-growing religious affiliation was no religion at all. In 1990 just 5% of Americans said they ...

If China were to invade Taiwan, no one is certain how different countries would line up. A new paper by the Centre for a New ...

Israel’s use of aid as a weapon of war has provoked outrage. It has prevented essential supplies from entering Gaza. And yet ...

Bolivia is one of very few countries with a legal market for coca. In the rest of the world it is controlled with the same ...

The listing is designed to allow JBS, already the world’s biggest food company by revenue, to gobble up even more market ...

Ireland in recent years has seen its GDP balloon for reasons unrelated to what its workforce is up to. The unexpected fortune ...

Arctic Passages. By Kieran Mulvaney. Island Press; 240 pages; $30 and £24. Ends of the Earth. By Neil Shubin. Dutton; 288 ...

Mr Landini, who heads Italy’s biggest trade union federation, was the leading sponsor of four referendums held on June 8th ...

Since then, the competition for the title of the world’s best club has stiffened somewhat. On June 14th the latest ...

Málaga has natural advantages, says Francisco de la Torre, its mayor. They start with a benign climate and its site on the ...