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Production of one-cent coins in America will cease in 2026. The penny’s life has been long and fruitful, but its time has ...

Imran Khan’s marriage to his spiritual adviser shocked the country. Now she could help decide whether he returns to office or stays in prison ...

He represented a previous tradition of reactionary Catholic nationalism, his worldview forged by Spain’s humiliating loss of ...

Universal free child care is a popular policy on the American left these days. Zohran Mamdani, New York’s Democratic ...

Since then China has rapidly expanded its security activity abroad by offering foreign governments police training and ...

T he silencing of the guns in Tigray, a northern region of Ethiopia in which hundreds of thousands of people may have died in ...

That morning the prisoners heard that Francisco Franco, Spain’s dictator since his victory in the 1936-39 civil war against ...

Ms Blackburn is one of several high-profile people to have recently complained of being defamed by a chatbot. In August Meta, ...

Mexico’s politics are riddled with drug money and mobsters, too. Mr Trump could unleash violence against the real threat on ...

Mobsters are exploiting the social-media app to normalise their image, mythologise their culture and even to launder money, ...

In Tampa, an old southern city with the restless energy of a Florida boomtown, a radical experiment in education is taking ...