Daily chart: disease. You are more likely to be killed by a non-communicable disease, like cancer or heart disease, than anything else. In 2008 they accounted for 63% of the 56m deaths worldwide.
KAL’s cartoon: this week, lines.
Tomorrow’s cover today: as robots grow more autonomous, society needs to develop rules to manage them.
KAL’s cartoon: this week, pointing.
Tomorrow’s cover today: we advise readers in Europe that a limited version of federalism is a less miserable solution than the break-up of the euro.
Tomorrow’s cover today: we advise readers in Asia and America that despite a recent slowdown, the world’s second-biggest economy is more resilient than its critics think.
The feeling’s mutual. Mr Hollande and Mrs Merkel are clashing over Eurobonds, and more.
Iran is back at the negotiating table. But trust in its diplomacy and in its theological utterances about nuclear weapons is fragile
Carlos Fuentes, man of letters, died on May 15th, aged 83. Our obituary remembers him.
Hope springs a trap. Recent research confirms that an absence of optimism plays a large role in keeping people trapped in poverty.