I N 1971 RICHARD NIXON, then America’s president, announced a “war on cancer”. Just two years earlier the Apollo programme ...

For women the median answer was 1.6. But around 25% of men and 28% of women said that moderation meant not drinking at all.

After a few minutes the guards tried to let a group of women join the front of the queue. The crowd surged forward and broke ...

As America and China swap shots in the trade battle served up by Donald Trump, Mr Huang has pinged and ponged between ...

The rising median age of people around the world has the same effect, since cancer can take decades to develop and therefore ...

Ministers from both the Conservative and the Labour parties must now explain why they kept secret for 683 days not just an ...

Editor’s note: On July 17th Sir Keir Starmer and Friedrich Merz signed the treaty described in this story.

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A law letting the government block freedom of movement could be a deal-breaker for the EU. Yet a fudge might still be found.