Food & drink industry Opinion New research shows that school-based programmes won’t solve the crisis. Without tougher action on the food industry, it will cash in – while the rest of us pay Last modified on Sun 11 Feb 2018 13.39 EST ‘It is cheaper to fill a hungry child with doughnuts than with…

BRUSSELS—It’s become an article of faith that the U.S. is withdrawing from the world, and a reflex to blame Donald Trump for it. It’s also largely fictitious.

Home > News > Insight into Romanian corruption networks insiders last updated: 02/02/2018 Bucharest based whistle-blower accuses head of ruling PSD party, Liviu

Cape Town, a city of 4 million, is set to run out of water on April 12. “We have reached a point of no return,” Cape Town mayor, Patricia de Lille, said in an address last week. The South African city plans to cut off access to the municipal water supply on that date—73 days from now—after which the…

‘D on’t tell your problems to people,” football legend Lou Holtz once declared. “Eighty percent don’t care, and the other 20 percent are glad you have them.” That’s rather harsh, I suppose — I’m sure you’d love to hear about the rogue fire hydrant that leapt in front of my car as I blamelessly tried…

US politics Opinion One of the most influential commentators in the US now recognises that white working-class voters have shifted en masse to the Republicans Last modified on Wed 10 Jan 2018 11.11 EST Paul Krugman is ‘one of the most influential newspaper columnists in America, a winner of the…

Biking? Google probably knows you are. Up a mountain? It probably knows that, too. The Alphabet subsidiary’s location-hungry tentacles are quietly lurking behind some of the most innovative features of its Android mobile operating system. Once those tentacles latch on, phones using Android begin…

Environment Opinion Environmental breakdown, coupled with the self-destructive behaviour of governments, has set us on a road to ruin. And we’re blocking off all means of escape Contact author @GeorgeMonbiot ‘Complex societies have collapsed many times before.’Photograph: Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty…

Seattle Newly opened Seattle store offers a speedy experience while fueling fears for retail jobs Mark Harris in Seattle @meharris Last modified on Mon 22 Jan

Drew Angerer/Getty Images Twitter is sending emails to 677,775 people in the US — letting them know they may have retweeted, followed, or liked a propaganda

Photo illustration by Derek Brahney. Man: SuperStock/Getty Images. Headphones: Swilmor/Getty Images. Early in January, an activist group called Resistance SF

Council of Europe. Photo: Nathan Guy/Flikr The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption, GRECO, has criticised Romania’s parliament in a report for adopting justice legislation without a proper consultation process and despite protests. The fourth evaluation report on the…

Donald Trump Opinion Donald Trump has made no secret of his bigotry. The sad truth is his comments about Haiti and Africa reflect the US’s historic racism

Human rights Utopian thinking Humans have always travelled, but barriers are lifted for capital while, for the global poor, borders are made ever tougher to

In order to gain access to an unremarkable suburban road, South Africans have become accustomed to parting with their most personal details. At barriers erected

The conventional full-time job is disappearing. Survey research conducted by economists Lawrence Katz of Harvard University and Alan Krueger at Princeton

Break from the past … Winston Churchill in 1940.Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images ‘F or days past there has been no real news and little possibility of

The headline from the Dutch business newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad caught my eye on Twitter a few weeks ago: “America is the example of how not to do

An Exercise in Language Compression Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive? In 1977, the great computer scientist Donald Knuth published a paper called The

When scientists announce they’ve made a breakthrough, they usually promise we’ll see the full effects of those discoveries—anything from a better understanding

While Facebook assures western powers, from Germany to the United States, that it will do everything it can to help them defend their democratic processes from

Let’s do a quick exercise. Are you ready? Draw a circle in the box below. Don’t think too hard! Did you start at the top or bottom? Clockwise or counterclockwise? New data show that the way you draw a circle holds clues about where you come from. In November, Google released an online game called…

Mescal Square at first light,Photograph: Oliver Balch The first thing I do on arriving in Addis Ababa is throw up. Right there on the airport asphalt, a

CROSSROADS, South Africa — The end of apartheid was supposed to be a beginning. Judith Sikade envisioned escaping the townships, where the government had forced

Romania is among the countries that export highly qualified workforce, especially in the fields of research, medicine and information technology. About 15,700 Romanian doctors, 15,000 Romanian researchers and many IT specialists are currently working abroad, according to a survey concluded by the…

Santa’s workshop … 19-year-old Wei works in a factory in Yiwu, China, coating polystyrene snowflakes with red powder.Photograph: Imaginechina/Rex There’s red on

One of the tools Facebook employs to keep law and order in its vast social network is the “Report” feature. Facebook users can report other users or pages that break Facebook’s many rules, and the offending content may be removed following these reports. But the feature, which should be used to…

‘If we can build the right system of rules and responsibilities around technology, we can rise with the robots, not fall below them.’Photograph: Lohr-J/Sipa

Romania is again in crisis. For the last few weeks, for the second time this year, there have been demonstrations in towns and cities around the country. On

Tay makes brief return to Twitter before suffering drug-smoking meltdown.Photograph: Microsoft Short-lived return saw Tay tweet about smoking drugs in front of

More than three million Romanians left the country to work abroad between 2000 and 2015, according to a UN report from 2015. The Romanian diaspora grew by 7.3% a year during this period. After Syria, it was the second fastest annual growth rate in the world. This migration abroad is one of the most…

Tim Berners-Lee: ‘We have to grit our teeth and hang on to the fence.’Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP S ir Tim Berners-Lee’s optimism about the future of the web

(Pixabay) From TRD New York: Though all the trappings that historically indicate a boom in retail are accounted for — consumer confidence, low unemployment and

Shoppers on Oxford Street on 7 November.Photograph: Mary Turner/Reuters On London’s Oxford Street a row of glittering snowflakes guides shoppers along the golden mile of fashion and department stores. The 750,000 lights floating above Selfridges, John Lewis and Debenhams are a decades-old tradition…

iPhone intimacy … we now disclose more when discussing innermost feelings with AI than with humans, according to a study.Photograph: Strauss/Curtis/Getty Images I t’s three in the morning and my room is bathed in the glow of my phone. Like one in three people , I check my smartphone when I wake up…

Assange, Trump and Putin: disrupting government and liberal norms.Composite: Geoff Caddick/Jim Watson/Mikhail Metzel/AFP/Getty A t a time when strange alliances

The largest demonstration took place in the country’s capital Harare where thousands of demonstrators began gathering at 9am at Robert Mugabe Square, a few metres from the headquarters of Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF. The mass turnout came after an unprecedented week which saw the army's top brass…

Listen to this article 00:00 00:00 This is an experimental feature. Thank you for your feedback. What do you think? Please tell us why (optional) Seven million Romanian workers face significant cuts to their future pensions under reforms agreed this month by the ruling social democratic PSD party…

Air Force One departing Las Vegas past the broken windows of the Mandalay Bay hotel, Oct. 4, 2017. Mike Blake/Reuters It has only been a few weeks, but I can

Zimbabwe’s ruling party described criticism of its conduct by armed forces commander Constantine Chiwenga as “treasonable” and intended to incite insurrection