This is a fine time to be British. Indeed, to be proud to be British. You would not, to be sure, think so from this past week in London – as the House of Commons humiliated Prime Minister Theresa May by throwing out her plan for Brexit in Tuesday by 432 votes to 202 – […]

The Rev. James Martin, one of America’s most prominent Catholic priests, is a best-selling author, film consultant to Hollywood producers and a prolific tweeter with a digital pulpit that reaches more than 250,000 followers. Father Martin is also a hero to many L.G.B.T. Catholics for challenging church leaders to recognize the full humanity of gay […]

This article is part of David Leonhardt’s newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it each weekday. The news can feel exhausting and demoralizing right now. Each day seems to bring a new assault on the notion of democratic governance. Yesterday brought two: President Trump’s public call for China to intervene in an American […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Airline bankruptcies have increased this year at the fastest ever rate, led by the collapse of India’s Jet Airways (JET.NS), British travel group Thomas Cook and Avianca of Brazil, according to industry data published on Friday. “2019 has seen the fastest growth in airline failure in history,” said airline consulting firm IBA, […]

There has never been a bright line between word and deed. Yet for years, the founders of Facebook and Twitter and 4chan and Reddit — along with the consumers obsessed with these products, and the investors who stood to profit from them — tried to pretend that the noxious speech prevalent on those platforms wouldn’t […]

VIENNA (Reuters) – Austrian sensor maker AMS (AMS.S) (AMS.VI) said on Friday that the result of its 4.5 billion euro ($4.9 billion) takeover bid for Germany’s Osram (OSRn.DE) might not come until the evening. AMS had secured around 30% of Osram shares shortly before its takeover offer expired at midnight on Tuesday after a tender […]

A 15-year-old trade row over whether European countries or the US were worse offenders in helping out their respective airline manufacturers has blown up spectacularly. Bizarrely, it’s gone off in the unsuspecting faces of the Irish food and drinks industry. The row over soft loans that France, the UK, Germany and Spain provided to airplane […]

Evelyn Cusack is nervous. She may be head of forecasting at Met Éireann, one of the country’s most senior meteorologists and a veteran of nearly 40 years of reading the charts, but in her line of work the unexpected is just an isobar away. It is not a lack of confidence in her knowledge or […]

Across North America, trees stand ready to help us solve the climate crisis. Trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in their wood. One way to respond to a challenge from the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, to seek “bold action and much greater ambition” on climate change is to protect […]

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian telecoms firm Axiata Group Bhd (AXIA.KL) has asked its edotco towers unit to seek deals to enter new markets or expand in Southeast Asia and South Asia, and may consider selling a stake if attractive large investment opportunities arise. Axiata last month pulled the plug on a planned non-cash merger […]