Have Siberian fires been smouldering underground all winter?
Jun 4th 2020SEEN FROM the sky, the northern stretches of Siberia in early May were a splodgy white, their thinning winter snow…
The Crew Dragon mission is a success for SpaceX and for NASA
Jun 4th 2020THE ECHOES were obvious. The first launch of an Apollo spacecraft with a crew took place in 1968, an election year…
Japan probes the limits of economic policy
Jun 4th 2020IN THE 1990S Japan seemed to offer a cautionary tale, an example of how feckless macroeconomic management could lead…
Is there a role for options insurance in equity portfolios?
Jun 4th 2020IN 1993 Nigel Short, a British chess player, became an unlikely TV star. This was a consequence of the staging in…
Indonesia’s president has a new rival
ANIES BASWEDAN was spoiling for a fight. Indonesia’s first case of covid-19 had been confirmed on March 2nd, and for weeks the…
Infections are rising fast in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan
Jun 6th 2020DELHI AND ISLAMABADOVER THE past week Bangladesh, India and Pakistan have largely lifted nationwide lockdowns intended…
African governments face a wall of debt repayments
Jun 6th 2020IT IS ALMOST a law of nature. Just as the female praying mantis eats her mate after copulation, so too can borrowers…
Covid-19 quietly sweeps across Yemen
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The lost instruments of Teotihuacan will soon be heard again
Jun 6th 2020ONE AFTERNOON last December Arnd Adje Both, a researcher at Huddersfield University, in Britain, stood on top of the…