May 21, 2013

How more money can be bad for you

The richer ‘Santeguinos’ get, the more time they spend in traffic, writes Martin Sandbu

Nigel Farage ©Reuters May 20, 2013

An inquisitor for our times

Veteran MP Margaret Hodge is striking fear in the hearts of business executives, writes Brian Groom

A Brazilian supporter of the national football team uses his mobile phone ©Getty May 20, 2013

The cup of sarcasm is overflowing

Not everyone is feeling football fever in Brazil, writes Joe Leahy

Laborers work on a construction site in Beijing, China ©Bloomberg May 14, 2013

Chinese lessons for Yahoo’s boss

Telecommuting in China is blurring the boundaries between home and work

May 13, 2013

Graft gets your goat in India

In election time, unscrupulous politicians start looking to animal spirits, writes James Crabtree

May 7, 2013

A game of big cats and cricket bats

What could be sadder than the lack of communication between the two halves of Punjab, writes Victor Mallet

May 1, 2013

Lebanon squanders its finest assets

The country’s most valuable asset now is its diaspora,writes David Gardner

TO GO WITH AFP STORY JAPAN-GASTRONOMY-FISH BY SHINGO ITO In a picture taken on June 5, 2012, pufferfish, known as fugu in Japan, swim in a tank at a Japanese restaurant "Torafugu-tei" in Tokyo. Every year in Japan people end up in hospital after eating pufferfish, sometimes they die. But despite the apparent danger, strict rules on serving the toxic delicacy in Tokyo are about to be relaxed. ©Getty Apr 30, 2013

Puffer-fish protests and Xi’s China dream

Until the link between corruption and development can be severed, no official can savour his swordfish

UKIP party supporters outside the party's by-election campaign shop in Wellgate, Rotherham ©Guzelian Apr 29, 2013

Ukip ‘fruitcakes’ make parties nervy

The party’s impact on local elections could be repeated at national level

, Mike Acevedo puts a weapon on display at the National Armory gun store on April 11, 2013 in Pompano Beach, Florida. The Senate voted 68-31 to begin debate on a bill that would significantly expand background checks for gun sales ©Getty Apr 23, 2013

On Boston and the right to bear arms

The bombing should give senators opposing gun control pause for thought, says Matthew Garrahan

Apr 18, 2013

Peace based on a wing and a prayer

The Afghan fascination with birds continues despite continuing violence, writes Victor Mallet

Apr 17, 2013

An attack on much more than a race

Lives ended with memories in the warmth of a spring day, writes Tom Mitchell

Apr 16, 2013

Tears, reality TV and the Chinese dream

Xi Jinping is cooking up the China of the future, writes Patti Waldmeir

Apr 10, 2013

The importance of not being Ernest

I feel the one thing you’re not supposed to about Thatcher: ambivalence, writes John McDermott

Apr 9, 2013

Marriage: evolution truly in the making

More Americans have an ‘evolved’ view on wedlock than believe in evolution, says Matthew Garrahan

Apr 3, 2013

Horses line up for a springtime ritual

British horseracing has been marginalised but the Grand National pushes it back to centre stage, writes Matthew Engel

Apr 2, 2013

In China, how to end it like Beckham

The real money in Chinese sport is in the advertising, writes Patti Waldmeir

Apr 1, 2013

Russians let Cyprus woes wash over them

The visitors from the north are showing how to keep cool, writes Courtney Weaver

Mar 26, 2013

The Boers make a plan for China

The relationship between South Africa and China is proving productive for both, writes Alec Russell

Mar 19, 2013

Dripping pigs rain on a political parade

Ten thousand dead animals polluting a river damps down Chinese hopes, says Patti Waldmeir

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