Sir Keir Starmer revels in the industrial nostalgia. The prime minister calls Britain’s steelworks a part of the “heritage of ...

As a result, Asians’ fondness for gold is often attributed to cultural reasons. But India and China are culturally very ...

The figures are drawn from our “footloose index”, a ranking of 135 countries and territories based on their attractiveness to ...

Unfortunately, things quickly turned yippy yet again. Even with the pause, Mr Trump is still building a fearsome trade wall.

Consider AI ’s appetite for energy first. The International Energy Agency ( IEA) reckons that electricity consumption by data ...

The hedge funds’ need for leverage brings in the last two actors in the story: money-market funds and the Treasury market’s ...

C ambodians awoke on April 3rd to learn that their exports to America would face tariffs of 49%. As they took in the news, ...

Another approach to estimating AI’s environmental footprint is to add up the energy use of the infrastructure used to build the models themselves. Meta’s Llama 3.1, a large language model (LLM ...

But in CAR, where it is led by Prigozhin’s former right-hand man, Dmitri Sytyi, it is still known as Wagner – and its forces ...

But his spirit lives on in Burkina Faso’s latest military ruler, Ibrahim Traoré, an army captain who took power in a coup in ...

On April 4th, responding to Donald Trump’s tariffs, China restricted sales to America of seven rare earths. The move forces ...

And this will be the first COP in three years not held in an autocratic petro-state. Brazil is a democracy with many vibrant ...