Seasoned chess players can relate to the legendary Paul Morphy, the “pride and sorrow of chess”, through Morphy numbers, a chain of games played by others. Morphy himself is 0, his direct opponents ...

The big risk was always that US President Donald Trump’s trade war would expand beyond his first love of tariffs to find new and entertaining ways of damaging the economy. Give the man his due: he, or ...

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The Democratic Republic of Congo, the world’s biggest producer of cobalt, is ending a seven-month ban on exports and instead introducing a quota system, which analysts expect to trigger a further rise ...

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US pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb will sell its new schizophrenia treatment in the UK for $22,500 a year, the same price as its American version, at a time when governments on both sides ...

The German government has appointed the first female chief of Deutsche Bahn, as Chancellor Friedrich Merz seeks to turn round the fortunes of a railway company that has become a symbol of the ...

Contreras, who grew up in Bethlehem and worked as a waiter in Allentown, came to the US from El Salvador as a 7-year-old undocumented minor. He has been held without charge for the past three months ...

Number of cyber attacks on third-party suppliers doubled in 2024 as multibillion-dollar ransomware sector booms ...

French business leaders have billed the left’s proposal for a new tax on the very wealthy as “insane” and “communist”, as the Socialist party pressures Emmanuel Macron’s new prime minister to ensure ...