China is cracking down on families who opt to bury their dead in empty high-rise properties — known as “bone ash apartments” ...

As is too often the case in the digital world, tokenisation of stock trading seems to be a solution in search of a problem.

If that were to occur, we could have a deeper than normal economic recession that would be a worse outcome than simply another bout of stagflation.

In trying to come up with solutions to the so-called “child penalty”, ie the financial cost to women’s earnings of having children, both Professor Almudena Sevilla (“Even generous welfare states ...

The book makes the simple but not very obvious case that one of the most under-acknowledged realities of working life is that ...

Switzerland is proposing to restrict wine imports under a plan from the country’s president, a trained winemaker with a ...

Fears of a helium crunch are mounting after a drop in global output since the start of the Iran war, as the conflict’s impact spreads beyond energy markets into other critical supply chains. The Gulf ...

US drugmaker Eli Lilly will sign a $2bn deal with a Hong Kong-listed company that uses artificial intelligence for drug discovery, according to sources familiar with the matter, h ...

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