Japan has long defined itself through its defensive defence posture — a strategic doctrine premised on protection rather than projection, under which the use ...

For many people, the last thing they see before sleeping is their phone. It may sit beside the pillow, on the mattress, or on a bedside table while charging through the night. That ordinary habit has ...

Trump’s “economic D-Day” against Iran was supposed to demonstrate American economic power. Instead, its first immediate effects have appeared closer to home. Oil prices rose, US shares fell, long-term ...

A narrow waterway separating Iran from the Arabian Peninsula has become the centre of a much larger confrontation between Washington and Tehran. When US President Donald Trump claimed the Strait of ...

The “Sleepy Girl Mocktail” sounds almost too simple to question. Mix tart cherry juice with magnesium powder, add sparkling water, drink it before bed — and, according to thousands of social-media ...

The writer is a Women and Gender Studies undergraduate at the University of Dhaka and an Applied Democracy Lab intern. Looking back at how it all began, female students from universities, colleges, ...

The Middle East is entering another period of strategic uncertainty, and the central question is no longer only whether the United States can contain Iran. The deeper question is whether decades of ...

China has spent months trying to revive household spending, stabilise prices and pull its economy away from the deflationary pressures that have weighed on growth. Yet the latest numbers suggest the ...

Five years after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, the country presents a difficult contradiction. The war that dominated daily life for two decades has largely disappeared, foreign troops ...