As the US president’s rollercoaster tariff policy creates global financial chaos, Tim Harford asks: is he in a fight he can’t ...

As travel warnings ease and flights increase, David Pilling joins a tour operator’s ‘recce’, travelling from the coast into the desert to find dune seas, ancient villages and remote oases ...

Peter Berezin at BCA Research, who has the lowest 2025 price target for the S&P 500 among analysts surveyed by Bloomberg, ...

As Erik Satie’s epic ‘Vexations’ comes to London, we recall other marathon feats, involving Marina Abramović, John Cage and F ...

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The US has approved Capital One’s $35.5bn takeover of Discover Financial in a deal that will merge two of America’s largest ...

The 1950s floor lamp design created by Richard Kelly and Philip Johnson for the architect’s Glass House turned the way a room is lit on its head — and it’s making a comeback ...

Amid the seemingly existential challenge by AI to the artistic process, two books explore how human creativity responds to changing environments ...

It’s not an area in which I have any expertise but I’ve found myself thinking about trade and resources, and what it could look like to imagine that there are different economic landscapes, aside from ...

Following hard on the heels of Youssou N’Dour comes Salif Keita, his Malian equivalent in stature. In 2019 the “Golden Voice of Africa” announced he was retiring from music to play draughts in the ...

Something happened inside the hypnosis room, Sunny recalled. “I came out and it left me [with] a feeling of ‘I don’t even know what it’s like to gamble’. “The only way I can describe it is if somebody ...

After months of US threats to hobble Mexico with tariffs over its “intolerable alliance” with drug cartels, the Trump administration has become positive about its southern neighbour.