This film will haunt you—if you can make it through the first scene, which is harrowing and hard to stomach. At a hospital in ...

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F or miles around, as far as the eye can see, the eastern suburbs of Damascus are a sea of undulating rubble and skeletal ...

Most Germans realised long before Hitler’s self-immolation that the dictatorship had brought nothing but death and ...

Dachau was the first of the Nazi concentration camps to be created, in 1933. In the 12 years of its existence, it changed a ...

The reason is hard to pin down. Inflation and economic anxiety have undermined confidence in European leaders. A changing ...

“A ll we care about is having the best-quality evidence,” says Detective Chief Inspector Ian Hughes, sitting in a poky office ...

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Coercion of institutions whose views Donald Trump disfavours has been a signature of his second term. Will he be checked? The ...

Yet for all the upheaval Mr Trump has provoked, deportations don’t seem to be increasing. Data are sparse, but leaked figures ...

As a result, humanoid robots are at last beginning to leave the lab and enter the workplace. On April 22nd Elon Musk ...

Lawsuits by Harvard University and law firms targeted by Mr Trump may offer the Supreme Court an opportunity to stop or limit ...