Ever since John Browne vowed to turn BP green some 25 years ago, the British oil giant has experienced a series of embarrassing mishaps. That includes major safety lapses, such as a...

ON A DRIVE around the vast production site of SKW Stickstoffwerke Piesteritz, Germany’s largest producer of ammonia, near Wittenberg, a spokesman for the firm points at a giant yellow valve. “Normally around...

DONALD TRUMP likes oil—and oilmen. He gushes about “liquid gold” with as much ferocity as Spindletop, an oil well that spat out perhaps 1m barrels over nine days in 1901 and turned...

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For American consumers, online shopping has just got dearer. On February 1st Donald Trump did away with a decades-old provision, known as the de minimis waiver, that exempted goods under a certain...

The world’s most successful maker of gaming hardware has not released a new console for nearly eight years. Yet the fanfare around the Nintendo Switch 2, expected to launch in the next...

“I am a woman of colour. I am a mom. I am a cis-gender millennial who has been diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder. I am intersectional.” She was also a spook. Her...

The flurry of executive orders issued by Donald Trump on his first day back as president showed the high priority he places on making America’s borders less porous. His efforts to “repel...