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To free up cash, the oil giants have been cutting costs. Exxon recently announced it would reduce its workforce by 3-4%.

In the past decade spending on children with SEND in England has almost doubled, reaching £11.6bn ($15.5bn). Yet even as ...

Mr Xi is firmly in charge, and unabashed about showing the party and the world that he will dump anyone deemed to be a bad ...

Days earlier the Pentagon’s boss, Pete Hegseth, had ordered her to sail to the Caribbean, part of a vast and unexplained ...

The World Ahead 2026 will be the 40th edition of The Economist ’s future-gazing annual, published every November since 1986, ...

Such developments led pundits to proclaim the end of rip-off markets. “Information perfection is on the rise,” pronounced ...

Nail art is enjoying triple-digit growth. The number of nail salons in America has doubled since 2012, to around 35,000, ...

So will the government of Donald Trump, which has been backing Mr Milei and buying pesos to prop up the Argentine currency.

A N UNLIKELY PART of the American economy has come under attack from the federal government: charitable and philanthropic non ...

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China’s craze for crude is part of a grander plan. Since early 2024, when it became clear that President Donald Trump might ...