Seniors are increasingly using marijuana to treat insomnia and mental-health conditions such as anxiety. This can be risky ...

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With a hyper-conservative president the country may be a test case for deportations, security crackdowns and spending cuts ...

The Lebanese army has tried to confiscate Hizbullah’s weapons near the border with Israel. General Nicolas Tabet, who ...

Canada’s relationship with China frosted over in 2018, when Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, an executive of Huawei, a Chinese ...

The kidnapping at St Mary’s in Niger state was the third such incident in a single week: three days earlier two people were ...

The Bible is already the most translated book ever—it is available in full in more than 750 languages—but they would like to see it in each of the world’s roughly 7,000 living tongues. To achieve this ...

Many Chinese struggle with the temptation. In a population of 1.4bn, some 300m are smokers. Most are male: nearly half of adult Chinese men smoke compared with just under 2% of women. Together they ...

This year, posts enthusing “He put a ring on it!” may show a picture of a sparkler with a yellow-gold setting. The precious ...

How much do America’s spies really know about who is being killed? One question spooks seek to answer is who is aboard ...

In November Mr Netanyahu visited idf troops inside Syria. “This is a mission that can develop at any moment,” he said ...

A s far as Donald Trump was concerned, it was a day of peacemaking in Washington, DC. On December 4th he hosted the leaders ...