China regulates accountancy, law, retail and even estate agents more tightly than the average member of the OECD, a club of ...

For its part, Ethiopia’s ban on internal-combustion engines was not a green measure—it was designed to cut spending on fossil fuels and save foreign currency. Clean technology generally requires more ...

Yet Intel still matters, as Mr Trump’s interest shows. The most advanced chips, vital for smartphones and AI, are now made almost entirely by TSMC. America’s tech giants depend on it. Such reliance on ...

As we published this, President Donald Trump was even mulling quasi-nationalisation. The sums needed to rescue it keep ...

Attempts to entice and bully tsmc to manufacture more chips outside Taiwan happen to align with the company’s thinking. Increasingly, the firm seems too large for its island home. s & p Global, a ...

Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Tulsi Gabbard promised to slash the ...

For most of the past 25 years, “phenomenal” was not a word many Americans used to describe Pakistan’s co-operation on counter ...

Among those who feared a sinister plot are several high-profile Republican politicians, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, a congresswoman from Georgia. In the aftermath of the floods Ms Greene ...

Developers, governments, startups and utilities around the world are turning former fossil-fuel power stations, and old oil and gas wells, into renewable-energy plants and testbeds for green ...

A lot more research needs to be done, says Dr Bennett. The gene variant highlighted by the study is common; it is found in 45% of people in Britain. For that reason, it is unlikely to be the only ...

Automation is also tricky: robots are good at putting together a specific item but struggle to recognise and take apart the thousands of different devices that end up in the rubbish. A new generation ...

Vladimir Putin, who met Mr Trump in Alaska on August 15th, wants Ukraine to hand over unoccupied land in the eastern Donbas ...