In the vast majority of cases, including Giddings’s, this is usually because a body is too decomposed to examine properly.

Seven years later, on April 25th, Mr Macron returned to the university with an altogether graver message: “Our Europe is mortal; it can die”. The underlying thread in Mr Macron’s long speech was one ...

In the speech that followed, Britain’s former prime minister set out his vision of a “united Europe” that would stand against tyranny. Central to it, he said, was the declaration of human rights by ...

America’s stockmarket finished the first quarter of 2024 on an astonishing tear, with its benchmark S&P 500 index having ...

This week, however, after months of dithering, Congress approved $40bn of such assistance, a sum roughly equivalent to all ...

W HEN KAVIPRIYA, a 22-year-old from a village in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, decided to take a factory job, her ...

Chinese citizens and business owners are increasingly victims of unscrupulous attempts by local governments to shore up their ...

In six weeks’ time Narendra Modi is expected to win a third term as India’s prime minister, cementing his status as its most ...

Where other historians saw a mob of hungry peasants, E.P. Thompson saw resistance to capitalism. Studying England’s ...

FLOWS OF INFORMATION and energy underpin all economic activity, and advanced technologies support both. Hence the sky-high stakes in the tech wars between America and China. Started during Donald ...

Mr Trump’s appeals have delayed one of his criminal trials—the federal election-interference case—which was scheduled to ...

Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Joe Biden signed legislation that ...