T HE PETITIONER in Trump v United States was not present on April 25th when the Supreme Court considered whether he and other ex-presidents should enjoy immunity from criminal lia ...

Seven years later, on April 25th, Mr Macron returned to the university with an altogether graver message: “Our Europe is ...

And, like America, California is not just a place but an idea: a golden land of opportunity at the edge of the continent where generations of miners, migrants, farmers, actors and computer geeks have ...

The right to privacy was cited in an influential ECHR ruling in 2002 that let a British trans woman change her birth ...

In the vast majority of cases, including Giddings’s, this is usually because a body is too decomposed to examine properly.

The first is Europe’s biggest climate achievement: its carbon price. By 2023 sectors covered by the EU’s emissions-trading ...

I T COULD BE the plot of a kitschy tear-jerker: a group of elderly Swiss ladies sue their government in an international ...

In the speech that followed, Britain’s former prime minister set out his vision of a “united Europe” that would stand against tyranny. Central to it, he said, was the declaration of human rights by ...

The Archers”, a BBC radio drama centred on the fictional rural village of Ambridge, contains numerous silent characters, spoken about but never heard from. Some have been in the show for years. There ...

Hull once had a powerful city council. Well before the second world war, it demanded money from the central government to pay for thousands of air-raid shelters—then, when Westminster demurred, built ...

The Middle East has a militia problem. Of the 400m people in the Arab world, more than a quarter live in countries where the ...

Unless we change Addis Ababa, we cannot bring in as much foreign wealth as we desire,” said Abiy Ahmed, the country’s ...