In Joël Penkman’s article “Small plants, big business” about the rise of plant poaching (Magazine, Life & Arts, January 25) my eye was caught by the name Robert Fortune, who Penkman tells us “brought ...

Without the mining industry, his quoted high-tech stocks would not exist if someone wasn’t there to dig the ores that make these companies possible. There is an adage: if you don’t grow it, then you ...

Colonising the red planet en route to creating “a spacefaring civilisation” has long been one of Musk’s driving ambitions — ...

His physician, observing his emaciated state and scurvy spots on his fingers, diagnosed the “Disease of the Learned” and recommended that he take a trip to the continent. Happily, during his journey, ...

It brought back so many memories of my teenage years when I travelled to Pakistan in 1997 for my aunt’s wedding. My elder brother, a big fan of the Urdu singer, requested I bring back, as a gift, the ...

About 760,000 hectares — or 9 per cent of England’s agricultural land — will need to “change away from agricultural land for ...

Now HSBC’s new chief executive, Georges Elhedery, seems to be heeding one of the tried and tested lessons of investment ...

Merz, leader of the Christian Democrats, had sought to restrict immigration rules with the support of the Alternative for ...

What’s special about Saint-Martin-de-Belleville is that, despite being part of the biggest ski area in the world, it’s an ...

Washington to push Caracas to take thousands of deportees, sparking alarm among country’s embattled opposition ...

Sir Martyn Oliver, chief inspector of Ofsted, will launch a consultation on a new system for assessing schools in England in ...

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