This is the introduction to Plot Twist, our weekly culture newsletter, in which correspondents spotlight important authors and performers, and tell you about the works of art and the stories they love ...

With a hyper-conservative president the country may be a test case for deportations, security crackdowns and spending cuts ...

Canada’s relationship with China frosted over in 2018, when Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, an executive of Huawei, a Chinese ...

The Lebanese army has tried to confiscate Hizbullah’s weapons near the border with Israel. General Nicolas Tabet, who ...

The kidnapping at St Mary’s in Niger state was the third such incident in a single week: three days earlier two people were ...

Many Chinese struggle with the temptation. In a population of 1.4bn, some 300m are smokers. Most are male: nearly half of adult Chinese men smoke compared with just under 2% of women. Together they ...

The Bible is already the most translated book ever—it is available in full in more than 750 languages—but they would like to see it in each of the world’s roughly 7,000 living tongues. To achieve this ...

“Addison”. By Addison Rae The breakout pop album of 2025. Addison Rae, a former TikTok star, pays tribute to musical ...

How much do America’s spies really know about who is being killed? One question spooks seek to answer is who is aboard ...

In November Mr Netanyahu visited idf troops inside Syria. “This is a mission that can develop at any moment,” he said ...

This year, posts enthusing “He put a ring on it!” may show a picture of a sparkler with a yellow-gold setting. The precious ...

T HE WORLD is becoming used to startling news from Washington. The Trump administration’s national security strategy ( NSS ), ...