Shinzo Abe may be about to become Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, but he also looks set to lead the world’s third-largest economy into a downturn, with little sign that his much-vaunted “Abenomics” stimulus policies will help turn things around.

Since the advent of flying more than a century ago, aviation has become one of the most resilient industries. Powered by forward-looking innovations but also faced with numerous setbacks, the industry has continuously adapted to various market forces

Past 40, and nearly five years after he arrived in Madrid, John Halliday is moving back to the UK and in with his parents. He had “nowhere else to go”, he says: Brexit had cost him his job and made other Spanish employers reluctant to hire Britons.

Authorities in California are still trying to figure out exactly what transpired on Thursday morning at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, where a shooting left two students dead at last count.

Europe’s political forces are divided between those who regard the European Union as promoting unfair, inefficient neoliberal economic policies, and those who see the bloc as key to preserving the relatively equitable and inclusive “European social model.”

The Democrats have 17 candidates clamouring for their presidential nomination, offering a wide and impressive array of experience and ideas. What makes Michael Bloomberg believe they may need another?

The dangers of environmental pollution receive a lot of attention nowadays, particularly in the developing world, and with good reason. Air quality indices are dismal and worsening in many places, with India, in particular, facing an acute public-health emergency.

Diabetes is a disease that occurs when there is an inability to produce adequate amounts of insulin (a hormone produced by beta cells in the pancreas) to maintain blood glucose levels within normal limits, and it represents a major medical, social, and economic burden worldwide.

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The most dismaying thing about the impeachment proceedings against US President Donald Trump is that they are falling so short of the constitutional gravamen of the issue.

While many countries around the world do not have a mental health policy, Qatar has had a decade-long commitment to developing mental health services.