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It was just a century ago that the Spanish flu epidemic spread across the world and killed tens of millions of people. Long before the moon landing, the...

Domestic violence costs the world 25 times more than war and terrorism, according to research conducted by James Fearon of Stanford University and Anke...

On a recent summer morning, Suntali Rai was busy counting and stacking zinc sheets as she prepared to lay them on the roof of the house she had started...

* Shoppers choose budget over luxury * Utility price rises squeeze consumer wallets * Retailers' sales, profits hit * But women driving, cinemas could...

The United States cannot win its tariff war with China, regardless of what President Donald Trump says or does in the coming months. Trump believes that he...

Heat waves and extreme-weather events across the Northern Hemisphere this summer have brought climate change back to the forefront of public debate. Early...

On October 21, Poland will hold local elections, which will be followed by the European Parliament elections in May 2019, national parliamentary elections...

At a meeting in Washington after Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in May, a senior US official told European diplomats that their efforts to...

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

One truism of the last three decades is that emerging markets are a leveraged play on global growth: they outperform when developed economies are growing,...