The coming year will be a battle between change and continuity for the Middle East. Three questions loom for the region https://t.co/SfcrogbVKZIllustration: Mel Haasch https://t.co/qj0S4Evogn ...

Testosterone’s use in post-menopausal women still needs well-designed trials to establish long-term efficacy and safety. That leaves the hormone in a medical grey area https://t.co/OcBsahCuQw ...

A democratic transition could set off a bonanza worth almost $2trn, reckons the opposition leader and Nobel laureate https://t.co/DuLEJzRqzQ ...

For much of the war complaints by “Z-bloggers” appeared to be tolerated so long as they created a veneer of public support for Vladimir Putin’s campaign. No longer https://t.co/rim4gDjnJI ...

Why is Germany so exposed to a second China shock? Find out on this week’s “Drum Tower” podcast https://t.co/8XQCxePahh ...

Since the death of the dictator, Spain has become the modern European country that many of its people yearned for. But its democratic institutions are showing signs of decay https://t.co/CtKR47PV0I ...

Delivery drones and flying cars are mainly science fiction in the rest of the world. But in China these technologies are becoming an everyday reality https://t.co/JwIeEPQx3O ...

Bitcoin may have exhausted most of the obvious catalysts for further surges. But one piece of news could just help the cryptocurrency soar again https://t.co/qC3qHPR0qA ...

Researchers at AidData scoured media reports for news of loans and grants from China’s government and its state-owned creditors. Here’s what they found, in four charts https://t.co/FFlY4dpXfY ...

Many countries are adopting online-safety laws, spurred by concerns about children. But the most sweeping, controversial and influential has come from Britain https://t.co/scSCmnLGEy ...