F inland is the undisputed sauna capital of the world, with approximately one sauna for every 1.6 people. But voluntary ...

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The Taliban were supposed to remain in the diplomatic doghouse until they abandoned their abhorrent treatment of women and ...

The Super Lig has long been popular among European players near the end of their careers. Turkey’s football-mad president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has lured them with a tax exemption: they pay a flat 20 ...

But the cia officer in question, along with two others involved in that 2016 report, Shelby Pierson and Vinh Nguyen, are some ...

In the wake of the unrest, which turned violent, China’s ruling Communist Party engineered sweeping changes in Hong Kong’s ...

An obvious plot offers itself to the deft diplomat: could Europe, the continental home of the Nobel prizes, dangle the ...

This does not mean that Britain is “lawless”, as the government’s critics complain. But both are signs of something worrying: ...

An unholy combination of disease, climate change and poor farming practices in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, where about 70% of ...

The Freedom Tower, a Miami museum overlooking Biscayne Bay that honours the history of Cuban exiles, will be unveiled next month after its $65m facelift. Between 1962 and 1974 it was the Cuban Refugee ...

Washington does have a say in the choice of president. The 23rd Amendment, ratified in 1961, gives it the same number of electoral votes—three—as the least-populous state. If Washington cast those ...

W hile American tech giants are spending megabucks to learn the secrets of their rivals’ proprietary artificial-intelligence (AI) models, in China a different battle is under wa ...