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Then, less than three weeks after Donald Trump won the election, Mr Sun began to buy some $75m-worth of tokens from World ...

Study after study has found that exercise boosts mood and reduces anxiety. Two large analyses published earlier this year go ...

Now imagine that it has had its teeth sharpened and been possessed by the devil: that gives you a sense of the aesthetic of a ...

Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Citadel, a hedge fund, issued a vague ...

R ongchang braised goose has been popular in a rural corner of south-west China since the Qing dynasty, but a year ago a ...

Xi Jinping, China’s leader, has said the country must have a “powerful” currency. The yuan is still far from that. But it is ...

Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, fired John Phelan, the navy secretary. Mr Phelan, the civilian head of the service, ...

S INCE 1980 the World Bank and the IMF have stuck to a plan. When countries on the brink of financial collapse come to them, ...

O ne strait”, Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto told his ministers in a televised cabinet meeting on April 8th, ...

N OT ALL wars are fought alike. One reason for the 78-year survival of Israel, a small democratic country in a mostly hostile ...