For a while missiles looked like potential prey. They have thin skins and are packed with fuel and explosives. Merely damaging the shell of a supersonic missile can create drag, causing it to tumble ...

Others with a stake in Ukraine’s security and relations with Russia must stay engaged too, argues the Nobel Peace Prize ...

Jean-Noël Barrot, France’s foreign minister, will formally present his country’s intention to recognise a Palestinian state ...

T HREE-AND-A-HALF years after Russia launched its full-scale, unlawful invasion of Ukraine, innocent civilians continue to ...

Desensitisation is possible. A family of treatments known as immunotherapies work by repeatedly exposing the body to tiny and ...

For Mr Medinsky, spreading that message comes naturally. He has spent decades peddling a nationalist ideology that casts ...

That approach should please much of his flock. New polling commissioned by The Economist suggests that Catholics are more ...

THAILAND AND Cambodia have mostly kept heavy weapons out of their long-simmering border disputes. So the sudden violence on ...

On July 23rd, after two years and an unprecedented number of submissions from governments and international institutions, the ...

Formerly known as food stamps, the programme has roots in a New Deal plan to redirect crop surpluses. Its subsequent survival ...

AIDS AND HIV, the virus that causes it, once sparked fear across the world. Apocalyptic forecasters in early 2002 reckoned ...

India can be a difficult place to live, with its pollution, noise and chaos. Yet even the richest stay put. This year some ...