Feeding a planet inhabited by 10 billion people by mid-century – already a daunting task – is getting harder due to a little-known impact of global warming: the decline of essential nutrients in the world’s staple foods that exist in almost every single person’s diet around the world. The mechanism by which rising carbon dioxide […]

HONG KONG (Reuters) – CITIC Capital, the flagship alternative investment arm of Chinese financial conglomerate CITIC Group, said it raised $2.8 billion in its fourth China buyout fund to bolster its ability to cut more deals in the world’s second-largest economy. The CITIC Capital China Partners IV, the firm’s biggest private-equity fund to date, has […]

Much attention in Ireland has recently been given to a handful of derogatory comments in the British media directed at this country’s political leaders. Infinitely more important than the views of a few English journalists is what is happening here – or rather not happening here – as the worst-case Brexit scenario moves closer by […]

In the wake of yet another spate of mass shootings, America is confronted with many questions. Among them: Will waiting periods on gun purchases help curb gun violence or reduce the number of gun-related deaths and injuries? What about gun buybacks? Or age restrictions? Public health experts know that far more people die of gunshot […]

The BBC broadcast a series about the EU’s side of the protracted Brexit negotiations. It was assumed this would happen after the UK had left the EU, allowing frank discussions to be recorded. One of these showed Guy Verhofstadt’s assistant gloating at the effect of the WA on the UK. He said the deal would […]

Growing demand for higher education and a housing crisis in the cities put university students in the eye of a perfect storm. School-leaver numbers are on the rise – and that upward trajectory will continue for almost a decade – with college applications rising alongside them. Grotty student flats have been part of Irish higher […]

President Trump told the American people that confronting China would be quick and painless and would result in clear gains for the American economy, a philosophy summarized most famously in his Twitter boast: “Trade wars are good, and easy to win.” Today, two years after the Trump administration imposed its first punitive measures on China, […]

To the Editor: Re “Assailing Hate, but Not Guns” (front page, Aug. 6): Shame on The New York Times for your original front-page headline (later changed) for Tuesday’s paper: “Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism”! Mr. Trump did nothing of the kind, and The Times’s editors and reporters know that only too well. The president sullenly […]

Most people put their life savings in the bank for safe keeping. One man, however, put his in a shoebox. On Thursday, he came dangerously close to losing it all when he accidentally tossed the box — including all US$23,000 of its contents — into a recycling bin. By the time the Oregon-based man realized […]

A heated Twitter discussion about banning assault weapons in the U.S. took an unexpected turn over the weekend, when one comment threw the internet into a confused frenzy over feral hogs. After back-to-back mass shootings on Friday and Saturday in Dayton, Oh. and El Paso, Tx., talk of gun law reform — especially around high-powered […]