Members of this cohort feel their economic horizons are shrinking — and that’s going to have a political impact ...

Entomologists say the claims are hogwash — especially in the firefly sweet-spot of the US Midwest, where local experts say we are having a bumper lightning bug year. Right now their brief mating ...

Tesla’s board has approved the award of 96mn shares worth about $30bn to Elon Musk as part of a new pay deal after the billionaire chief executive threatened to leave the electric vehicle maker if he ...

Sauer founded the “Action Group for World Peace”, aged 14, demonstrated against the Vietnam war and became a Maoist, prompting the Dutch intelligence service to spy on him for nearly 20 years. Reading ...

The UK government is seeking to cut the time it takes to set up clinical trials by more than two-thirds, as it aims to lure more companies to Britain and boost the life sciences sector.

Sometimes bad news is better than no news. The UK’s Supreme Court and Financial Conduct Authority over the weekend confirmed that mis-sold motor finance will become the most expensive British banking ...

Kate Forbes, Scotland’s deputy first minister, is to step back from frontline politics at the next Holyrood legislative elections, hitting the devolved government’s campaign to retain power in nine ...

Iran is not alone in considering currency reforms. Over the past 25 years, countries including Turkey, Romania and Zambia have lopped zeros from their currencies after bouts of runaway inflation left ...

Magnus Carlsen has reaffirmed his domination of competitive international chess with an impressive triumph in last week’s Esports World Cup at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, earning a $250,000 first prize.

Martin says he’s old enough to have taken a train to Blackpool for a week’s holiday. A student of timetables since childhood, he found that “the destinations that looked more pleasing on the page were ...

The five-part documentary looks at parenting in the animal kingdom, from dolphins to gorillas to mother-devouring spiders ...

The Swiss currency has soared this year in response to the turmoil prompted by Trump’s chaotic policymaking, as investors ...