But, according to a new global ranking of 139 economies published by the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO), Germany ...

Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox.

Mr Huang is in a celebratory mood. Hobnobbing with kings and presidents is one sign of his extraordinary ascent, thanks to ...

A stronger argument for slimming reporting rules might be the burden on smaller firms. Since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, ...

“I don’t want to take anything from the government,” says an Egyptian doctor living in Britain. “I want to give the country ...

Stability and Change in Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Across Childhood and Adolescence” was published in the ...

Thailand’s king asked the leader of the Thai Pride Party to form a new government—even though his outfit holds only about one ...

Their stories reflect new trends in Chinese dissent: an increase in the number of protests, a rise in creativity and a ...

Yet talk of change continues to face fierce opposition from conservatives, who claim that the imperial line has remained ...

The question is whether Mr Li will pledge to accelerate the fall in China’s emissions. Every five years, the 195 countries ...

And what do migrants in northern France, who mostly plan to cross the channel in inflatable boats in the middle of the night, ...

Untangling how much one side is to blame for political violence is tricky. The suspect in Mr Kirk’s murder does indeed seem ...