Mr Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) won, and is set to run West Bengal for the first time. The vote was part of a wave ...

Reliance, which is worth some $200bn, runs the world’s biggest oil refinery, with roughly 1.5% of global processing capacity.

The militia has seized around 45 mining assets, according to the CRG report. The most important is Rubaya, a town some 60km ...

This came shortly after Ukraine and Russia agreed to a three-day ceasefire brokered by America, though by May 10th both sides ...

To understand how the energy shock will affect grocery bills, consider each step of the supply chain. Begin with farmers, who ...

LOVE HIM or loathe him, Elon Musk is hard to avoid. The world’s richest man is poised to float the world’s most valuable ...

T he blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is forcing Asia’s energy importers to scour new markets. Thailand wants to buy more oil ...

The protagonist of “Perfect Days”, a new film by Wim Wenders, a German director, is a Japanese sanitary worker. Each day he rises before dawn to clean public toilets in Tokyo. His job of scrubbing ...

Labour supporters watched in horror as councillor after councillor in the party’s heartlands fell to Nigel Farage’s ...

A year or so after communist China established diplomatic ties with America in 1979, Chinese officials started asking for a ...

I T ARRIVED NOT as an event but as a sensation, felt everywhere at once: Vladimir Putin has led Russia into a dead-end and ...

Until now, Vladimir Putin’s government is thought to have provided intelligence that enabled Iran to target American forces ...