Deborah Warner’s stark and meticulous staging of Britten confirms the Teatro dell’Opera as a refreshing alternative to Milan’s La Scala ...

It would be a reckless gamble for Putin to test the will of the Nato countries to defend the alliance’s eastern frontier. Unfortunately, as the world discovered when Russian forces advanced on Kyiv in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The restoration began with the supercomputer reconstruction of the 18th-century roof — and ended with a minimalist spa ...

There’s much grumbling — and plenty of nimble physical comedy — as Gleeson’s Jack tries to coax a stout out of a faulty bar tap and reluctantly settles for a bottle. The feigned hesitation of barman ...

It was a big deal. As David Mulford, a senior US Treasury official at the time, later recalled: ...

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 ...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has vowed to scrap the main route for migrants to settle permanently in the UK, unveiling the radical plans as he warned business “the era of cheap foreign labour is over ...

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