President Donald Trump is planning to overhaul the permits allowing foreign skilled workers to work in the US, imposing a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas. According to a White House official, Trump would ...

The US carried out its third deadly strike this month on a boat allegedly trafficking drugs, as the Trump administration continues its military campaign in the waters around South America. US ...

Rules to curb online activities of money-minded monks and clergy follows scandal at world-renowned Shaolin Temple ...

Donald Trump’s $15bn lawsuit against The New York Times was struck down by a federal judge in Florida on Friday for being too long and lacking a “plain statement of the claim”.

Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients ...

Nvidia is in advanced discussions to invest $500mn in UK self-driving car company Wayve, as part of the US chipmaker’s planned £2bn funding pledge earmarked for British start-ups.

The International Finance Corporation sold tranches of risk on a $500mn portfolio of loans to companies in emerging markets this month, as a test of a plan to boost the World Bank’s firepower with ...

Thanks for your piece on Chris de Burgh’s “The Lady in Red” ( The Life of a Song, September 9), and may I record my heartfelt sympathy for the British troops in Iraq who had to endure the Iranians ...

As Heathcote points out, Eero Saarinen’s embassy entrance foyer was one of London’s most welcoming public spaces, with Marine guards visible in dress blues, the iconic Eames chairs and current US ...

Charles Clover’s review of Lyse Doucet’s book The Finest Hotel in Kabul (“Heartbreak Hotel”, Books, Life & Arts, September 13) awakened memories for me, of my wife and I dancing to live music at the ...

Michael Palin’s encounter with Sebin, Venezuela’s national intelligence service, may have affected his memory of the primates he encountered in Los Llanos; lemurs are only found in the wilds in ...

As a man in my mid-fifties who has managed to get through life without, to the best of my knowledge, ever having met a model, I am ashamed to admit that I am probably guilty of assuming that the genre ...