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E VER SINCE the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds in the 1940s, debate has raged over their exact age.

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In a few early June days, underlying assumptions about Ukraine and Russia were shaken in three ways. On June 1st Ukraine ...

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Europe is famed for its zippy German cars, French high-speed trains and sleek Italian motorboats. But for decades the ...

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

Water is in the muck for two reasons. One is decades of underinvestment. The blame for that sits mostly with Ofwat, the ...

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 ...