Can America’s stockmarket rally last?
Global temperatures have broken records three times in a weekAre these records falling faster?To read more of The Economist’s data journalism visit our Gra...
The Supreme Court blocks Joe Biden’s student-debt-relief plan
image: Getty ImagesIN ITS LAST decision of the 2022-23 term, the Supreme Court on June 30th scuttled President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel some $430bn in fe...
Rioting in France presents a fresh political test for Emmanuel Macron
image: AFPTHE FRENCH president, Emmanuel Macron, is facing one of the toughest challenges yet of his second term, after rioting across the country continue...
France’s riots shine a light on policing, and put President Macron in a vise
THE KILLING of a teenager in a Paris suburb has ignited national unrest. We ask what is driving the disquiet, and what it means for a president squeezed on...
The humbling of Vladimir Putin, hard truths about green growth and how to design better flags
A SELECTION OF three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, the humbling of Vladimir Putin, how misfiring environ...
Israel launches its biggest raid on the West Bank in over 20 years
image: ReutersAS THE SUN dipped on July 3rd, the fighting in a refugee camp in Jenin, a city in the West Bank, entered its second night. Ambulances ferried...
Israel’s raids in the West Bank hint at how Palestinian militants are changing
THE SO-CALLED refugee camp in the city of Jenin has been subject to raids for months—and a hotspot for militants for decades. We ask what set things off so...
The future of war
Britain’s lighthouses are being transformedWatch the sweep of history along the coastlineAt first glance the war in Ukraine may look like a conflict from t...
Is the Japan-China relationship at a turning-point?
THE CONUNDRUM of how to de-risk and deter conflict with China is puzzling the West. But one country is ahead in figuring out how to deal with a changing Ch...
The Wagner Group is likely to stay put in Africa—but do Africans still want them?
ITS LEADER is in exile and its future is uncertain. But the Wagner Group will be loth to abandon the influence and the cashflow that its murky African oper...
High-speed descents are the talk of the Tour de France
image: Getty ImagesIT TAKES GREAT skill to urinate off the side of a moving bicycle. Tom Pidcock did so after zooming down the Col du Galibier during the 1...
An interview with Vint Cerf, one of the “fathers of the internet”
ALMOST 50 YEARS ago, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn designed TCP/IP, a set of rules enabling computers to connect and communicate with each other. It led to the cr...
David Eaves on the promise and pitfalls of digital government
image: Dan WilliamsOVER THE past decade a small but growing number of governments have begun to challenge the assumption that the state is no good at deplo...
Meta’s Threads app has better odds of usurping Twitter than previous clones had
IF THERE IS one thing Facebook’s parent company does well, it is aping other social-media features and platforms—and it is a propitious time to steal Twitt...
Drug-trafficking networks are expanding into new territories
Global temperatures have broken records three times in a weekAre these records falling faster?STORIES ABOUT illicit drugs are often local: influenced by re...
Will aviators ever kick their carbon habit?
THE AVIATION INDUSTRY is responsible for more than 2% of annual carbon emissions. That figure is set to rise as more passengers take to the skies. But the ...
An interview with Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s spymaster
WE SIT DOWN with Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s youngest-ever spymaster. He is intense, resolute—and oddly charismatic. A world of electrified transport is goin...
North Korea’s hackers are after intel, not just crypto
Global temperatures have broken records three times in a weekAre these records falling faster?To read more of The Economist’s data journalism visit our Gra...
Britain’s lighthouses are being transformed
The future of warThe Ukraine conflict reveals how technology is reshaping warfareMany of the lights that for more than a century have swept across Britain’...
Was the Supreme Court right to overturn affirmative action?
AMERICA’S SUPREME Court has ended the use of race-based affirmative action in college admissions. It is 45 years since the court gave its blessing to such ...
Global temperatures have broken records three times in a week
North Korea’s hackers are after intel, not just cryptoThe country’s “all-purpose sword” is living up to its nameTo read more of The Economist’s data journa...
A lighter look at the week’s big story
This week's cartoon is by Saffron Swire, a Melbourne-based British journalist, editor and illustrator.We regularly commission artists from around the world...
[World] Michael Charles Burham: US inmate with 'survivalist skills' in Pennsylvania jail break
Image source, Warren Police DepartmentBy Max MatzaBBC NewsA suspected murderer with "survivalist skills" has broken out of a Pennsylvania jail by climbing ...
[World] Cluster bombs: Unease grows over US sending cluster bombs to Ukraine
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The remnants of a cluster bomb found in a field in Ukraine in April 2023By Kathryn Armstrong & Antoinette RadfordB...
[World] Sudan conflict: Air strike kills at least 22 in Khartoum
Image source, ReutersImage caption, Fighting for control of the capital has continued since 15 April, including on Tuesday when this photograph was takenBy...
[World] Zelensky visits Snake Island on Ukraine War's 500th day
Image source, TelegramImage caption, President Zelensky called Snake Island a "place of victory" that would never be reconqueredBy Thomas MackintoshBBC New...
[World] Recife: 14 killed in Brazil apartment block collapse
Image source, EPAAn apartment building has collapsed in the city of Recife in north-eastern Brazil, killing at least 14 people, rescuers say.Two children, ...
[Sport] US football star Rapinoe to retire at end of season
Megan Rapinoe helped USA win the World Cup in 2015 and 2019USA forward Megan Rapinoe, one of the most successful players of her generation, says she will r...
[World] Syria cancels BBC media accreditation
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad seen in Syria in May 2023By Antoinette RadfordBBC NewsThe Syrian government has c...
[World] Georgia Pride festival in Tbilisi stormed by right-wing protesters
Image source, ReutersImage caption, Protesters broke through a police cordon to stop the Pride eventUp to 2,000 anti-LGBT protesters stormed a gay pride fe...
[Science] How warming oceans are driving the climate juggernaut
Image source, Getty ImagesBy Justin RowlattClimate editor, BBC NewsIt is hot. Very hot. And we are only a few weeks into summer.Texas and part of the south...
[World] Ghana's batmen hunting for pandemic clues
By Naomi Grimley and Camilla HorroxBBC News, AccraBats are essential to the world's ecosystems, but they are known carriers of several viruses. Humans are ...
[World] TikTok and Title 42 rumours fuel human smuggling at the US border
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Migrant on his mobile at the US-Mexico borderBy Bernd Debusmann JrBBC News, WashingtonStepping into the brown wate...
[World] Watch: Cars plough through massive Delhi flooding
Heavy rain in India's capital has caused the city to flood, leaving residents stranded and vehicles at a standstill.
[World] Giessen Eritrea festival clashes leave 26 police officers injured
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, German police report large-scale unrest in Giessen (file pic)Hundreds of German police have used batons and pepper...
Gunman riding scooter in Queens kills 1 person and injures 3 others in back-to-back ‘random’ shootings, New York police say
One person died and three others were wounded Saturday in a string of shootings in Brooklyn and Queens that New York police described as “random” in nature...
West Georgia woman faces meth trafficking charge after drug raid while she wasn’t home
A west Georgia woman wasn’t at her Haralson County home when it was raided earlier this week, but she’s now been arrested.Deputies say they searched a home...
Murder, rape suspect uses bedsheets to escape jail
A homicide suspect arrested in South Carolina escaped from a Pennsylvania jail using bedsheets, police said.Michael Burham, 34, is accused of murder and ra...
Chicago Police officers accused of sexual misconduct with migrants housed in police station
CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Chicago Police Department is investigating claims that several officers engaged in sexual misonduct with migrants living at a West Sid...
Peter Nero, a Grammy-winning pianist and ex-conductor of the Philly Pops, dies at 89
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Peter Nero, a Grammy-winning pianist who interpreted pop songs through classical and jazz forms and served as the Philly Pops' conducto...
Can America’s stockmarket rally last?
Global temperatures have broken records three times in a weekAre these records falling faster?To read more of The Economist’s data...
The Supreme Court blocks Joe Biden’s student-debt-relief plan
image: Getty ImagesIN ITS LAST decision of the 2022-23 term, the Supreme Court on June 30th scuttled President Joe Biden’s plan to...
Rioting in France presents a fresh political test for Emmanuel Macron
image: AFPTHE FRENCH president, Emmanuel Macron, is facing one of the toughest challenges yet of his second term, after rioting ac...
France’s riots shine a light on policing, and put President Macron in a vise
THE KILLING of a teenager in a Paris suburb has ignited national unrest. We ask what is driving the disquiet, and what it means fo...
The humbling of Vladimir Putin, hard truths about green growth and how to design better flags
A SELECTION OF three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, the humbling of Vladimir Put...
Israel launches its biggest raid on the West Bank in over 20 years
image: ReutersAS THE SUN dipped on July 3rd, the fighting in a refugee camp in Jenin, a city in the West Bank, entered its second ...
Israel’s raids in the West Bank hint at how Palestinian militants are changing
THE SO-CALLED refugee camp in the city of Jenin has been subject to raids for months—and a hotspot for militants for decades. We a...
The future of war
Britain’s lighthouses are being transformedWatch the sweep of history along the coastlineAt first glance the war in Ukraine may lo...
Is the Japan-China relationship at a turning-point?
THE CONUNDRUM of how to de-risk and deter conflict with China is puzzling the West. But one country is ahead in figuring out how t...
The Wagner Group is likely to stay put in Africa—but do Africans still want them?
ITS LEADER is in exile and its future is uncertain. But the Wagner Group will be loth to abandon the influence and the cashflow th...
High-speed descents are the talk of the Tour de France
image: Getty ImagesIT TAKES GREAT skill to urinate off the side of a moving bicycle. Tom Pidcock did so after zooming down the Col...
An interview with Vint Cerf, one of the “fathers of the internet”
ALMOST 50 YEARS ago, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn designed TCP/IP, a set of rules enabling computers to connect and communicate with eac...
David Eaves on the promise and pitfalls of digital government
image: Dan WilliamsOVER THE past decade a small but growing number of governments have begun to challenge the assumption that the ...
Meta’s Threads app has better odds of usurping Twitter than previous clones had
IF THERE IS one thing Facebook’s parent company does well, it is aping other social-media features and platforms—and it is a propi...
Drug-trafficking networks are expanding into new territories
Global temperatures have broken records three times in a weekAre these records falling faster?STORIES ABOUT illicit drugs are ofte...
Will aviators ever kick their carbon habit?
THE AVIATION INDUSTRY is responsible for more than 2% of annual carbon emissions. That figure is set to rise as more passengers ta...
An interview with Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s spymaster
WE SIT DOWN with Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s youngest-ever spymaster. He is intense, resolute—and oddly charismatic. A world of elec...
North Korea’s hackers are after intel, not just crypto
Global temperatures have broken records three times in a weekAre these records falling faster?To read more of The Economist’s data...
Britain’s lighthouses are being transformed
The future of warThe Ukraine conflict reveals how technology is reshaping warfareMany of the lights that for more than a century h...
Was the Supreme Court right to overturn affirmative action?
AMERICA’S SUPREME Court has ended the use of race-based affirmative action in college admissions. It is 45 years since the court g...
Global temperatures have broken records three times in a week
North Korea’s hackers are after intel, not just cryptoThe country’s “all-purpose sword” is living up to its nameTo read more of Th...
A lighter look at the week’s big story
This week's cartoon is by Saffron Swire, a Melbourne-based British journalist, editor and illustrator.We regularly commission arti...
[World] Michael Charles Burham: US inmate with 'survivalist skills' in Pennsylvania jail break
Image source, Warren Police DepartmentBy Max MatzaBBC NewsA suspected murderer with "survivalist skills" has broken out of a Penns...
[World] Cluster bombs: Unease grows over US sending cluster bombs to Ukraine
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The remnants of a cluster bomb found in a field in Ukraine in April 2023By Kathryn Armstr...
[World] Sudan conflict: Air strike kills at least 22 in Khartoum
Image source, ReutersImage caption, Fighting for control of the capital has continued since 15 April, including on Tuesday when th...
[World] Zelensky visits Snake Island on Ukraine War's 500th day
Image source, TelegramImage caption, President Zelensky called Snake Island a "place of victory" that would never be reconqueredBy...
[World] Recife: 14 killed in Brazil apartment block collapse
Image source, EPAAn apartment building has collapsed in the city of Recife in north-eastern Brazil, killing at least 14 people, re...
[Sport] US football star Rapinoe to retire at end of season
Megan Rapinoe helped USA win the World Cup in 2015 and 2019USA forward Megan Rapinoe, one of the most successful players of her ge...
[World] Syria cancels BBC media accreditation
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad seen in Syria in May 2023By Antoinette RadfordBBC NewsTh...
[World] Georgia Pride festival in Tbilisi stormed by right-wing protesters
Image source, ReutersImage caption, Protesters broke through a police cordon to stop the Pride eventUp to 2,000 anti-LGBT proteste...
[Science] How warming oceans are driving the climate juggernaut
Image source, Getty ImagesBy Justin RowlattClimate editor, BBC NewsIt is hot. Very hot. And we are only a few weeks into summer.Te...
[World] Ghana's batmen hunting for pandemic clues
By Naomi Grimley and Camilla HorroxBBC News, AccraBats are essential to the world's ecosystems, but they are known carriers of sev...
[World] TikTok and Title 42 rumours fuel human smuggling at the US border
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Migrant on his mobile at the US-Mexico borderBy Bernd Debusmann JrBBC News, WashingtonSte...
[World] Watch: Cars plough through massive Delhi flooding
Heavy rain in India's capital has caused the city to flood, leaving residents stranded and vehicles at a standstill.
[World] Giessen Eritrea festival clashes leave 26 police officers injured
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, German police report large-scale unrest in Giessen (file pic)Hundreds of German police ha...
Gunman riding scooter in Queens kills 1 person and injures 3 others in back-to-back ‘random’ shootings, New York police say
One person died and three others were wounded Saturday in a string of shootings in Brooklyn and Queens that New York police descri...
West Georgia woman faces meth trafficking charge after drug raid while she wasn’t home
A west Georgia woman wasn’t at her Haralson County home when it was raided earlier this week, but she’s now been arrested.Deputies...
Murder, rape suspect uses bedsheets to escape jail
A homicide suspect arrested in South Carolina escaped from a Pennsylvania jail using bedsheets, police said.Michael Burham, 34, is...
Chicago Police officers accused of sexual misconduct with migrants housed in police station
CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Chicago Police Department is investigating claims that several officers engaged in sexual misonduct with migr...
Peter Nero, a Grammy-winning pianist and ex-conductor of the Philly Pops, dies at 89
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Peter Nero, a Grammy-winning pianist who interpreted pop songs through classical and jazz forms and served as ...