Metamorphoses. By Karolina Watroba. Franz Kafka’s fame is not only the product of literary excellence. He also got lucky, as this biography of the writer’s afterlife reveals. It traces his ...

The ICC is meant to be a court of last resort that steps in when a country’s own courts fail to prosecute abuses. Israel’s ...

Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Bob Casey, a three-term Democratic ...

Nearly a third of the lorries entering Gaza are hijacked, reckons an Israeli officer. On November 18th, only 11 lorries in a ...

Y OU WOULD have thought Elon Musk was busy enough building brain implants, electric cars, grid-scale batteries, robots, ...

M any Americans hope that Donald Trump will fulfil his campaign pledges to bring down prices and deport illegal immigrants.

The authority runs the subway, buses and commuter lines to the suburbs, as well as some tunnels and bridges, and will now ...

As of today,” the prosecutor tells the magistrates, “and congratulations by the way, that can all still be done here.” He is ...

Master’s degrees lasting one or two years are the biggest draw. These courses are necessary for jobs, such as teaching in ...

The history of post-war Europe, at first in the west and then in the former communist bloc, is one of polities striving to ...

B ritish history is filled with stories of miraculously helpful weather, from the “Protestant wind” that scattered the ...

Mr Trump’s threat of a new trade war puts China’s leaders in a tricky spot. America’s president-elect has talked of imposing ...