Modest fashion’s primary market is the world’s billion or so Muslim women, many of whom dress conservatively. Muslim consumer ...

Cyclists are understandably miffed. It is “insane”, says Carl Mahaney of Open Plans, an advocacy group, since most deaths and ...

The bias in favour of boys is shrinking in developing countries even as a preference for girls emerges in the rich world ...

Much of the world has paid scant attention to Myanmar since the coup. Western countries, which did the most to encourage ...

When Manchester Town Hall opened in 1877 it was not just a magnificent ornament for a confident city. It also proclaimed to ...

Bicester Village was built 30 years ago by Value Retail, a privately held group founded by Scott Malkin, whose father once ...

Pete Hegseth, a former army major and now America’s defence secretary, celebrates soldiers “with dust on their boots”. But ...

California implemented its economy-wide carbon market in 2013; Washington followed in 2023. But California’s plummeting ...

H is finger ink-stained from voting, Wagirin Tjokrosetiko, a 62-year-old driver of Javanese descent, has a simple reason for ...

Badar, Fauzia and Karim—three people from different walks of life—come of age in Tanzania. The author’s first novel since ...

An overseas degree is also less useful than it was in China’s grim job market. Many of the foreign consultancies and law ...

The fading of boy preference in regions where it was strongest has been astonishingly rapid. The natural ratio is about 105 ...