That paves the way for their candidate, Friedrich Merz (pictured), to take over from Olaf Scholz as chancellor after ...

U KRAINIAN OFFICIALS are locked in talks with America whose brinkmanship is dizzying even by Donald Trump’s standards. He and ...

In part, this reflects the broader crypto boom—but stablecoins are increasingly used for real-world purposes, too. Migrants ...

The other side of the border has been beefed up too. The US Department of Defence has ordered 1,500 additional active-duty ...

Donald Trump is smashing up assumptions about America’s place in Europe’s security architecture that perhaps held faster in ...

The sackings have little to do with kindling the “warrior ethos”, which the defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, vows to do.

Nowhere is the trend towards resource nationalism more advanced than in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, the heart of Africa’s ...

But, from Vladimir Putin’s point of view, he had good reason to be part of it. As the boss of one of Russia’s state-backed ...

Like recombinant DNA before it, gene editing has the potential to transform medicine, agriculture and more. CRISPR is now ...

When the monkeys were single-celled embryos, scientists had used CRISPR editing tools to silence, or “knock out”, a gene that ...

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Gene-edited crops may help adaptation to climate change The centre, funded primarily by the British government, operates on ...