In straitened times, longer-term development should skew towards the poorest and most difficult countries even if that means dealing with insalubrious regimes. There should also be a greater emphasis ...

OpenAI-backed start-up Chai Discovery has raised $70mn, valuing the group at about $550mn, as investors bet on the potential for artificial intelligence to speed up drug discovery and tackle disease.

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan reunite 22 years on as a podcasting therapist and a business manager/single mother ...

Back then, McKnight explains, panto was problematic. The jokes were often sexist, racist and homophobic. Female characters were invisible, aside from the principal boys — when played by a woman — and ...

A useful primer explains how cosmic exploration has been commercialised and explores the challenges in policing this new wild west ...

That leaves three possible explanations: millions of American teenagers have been appearing fully formed from thin air; Americans previously thought to be dead have been rising from their graves to ...

Novartis has made a takeover approach for rare disease-focused biotech Avidity Biosciences, as Big Pharma continues to hunt ...

Welcome to the Landsgemeinde — a public voting system that works by majority rule and has survived in just two of Switzerland’s 26 cantons — a symbol of the country’s unique form of hands-on democracy ...

The letter, sent on Wednesday and seen by the Financial Times, gives the Chinese embassy just two weeks to respond, saying ...

Apple is preparing to add a further $100bn to its US investment plans as chief executive Tim Cook strives to insulate the ...

Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy, landed in Moscow early on Wednesday for talks over the Russian war in Ukraine, ...

The company’s share price has climbed more than 45 per cent in the year-to-date as investors have been buoyed by its ability to close significant deals in the robotaxi market. Uber launched its ...