E VER SINCE the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds in the 1940s, debate has raged over their exact age.

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In a few early June days, underlying assumptions about Ukraine and Russia were shaken in three ways. On June 1st Ukraine ...

All nine seats on Mexico’s Supreme Court were taken by people with links to the ruling party. A new disciplinary tribunal ...

An overseas degree is also less useful than it was in China’s grim job market. Many of the foreign consultancies and law ...

Russia’s crisis also ruined Mr Fischer’s next holiday on the Greek island of Mykonos. He had to fly back to Washington, ...

One exception in recent years was the Shangri-La Dialogue, a gathering of defence ministers, military commanders and spy ...

Europe is famed for its zippy German cars, French high-speed trains and sleek Italian motorboats. But for decades the ...

Even before Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs on April 2nd, the median estimate among the 48 who were surveyed by the ...

Cyclists are understandably miffed. It is “insane”, says Carl Mahaney of Open Plans, an advocacy group, since most deaths and ...

When Manchester Town Hall opened in 1877 it was not just a magnificent ornament for a confident city. It also proclaimed to ...

Water is in the muck for two reasons. One is decades of underinvestment. The blame for that sits mostly with Ofwat, the ...