Some of the golden ages Mr Norberg describes will be familiar to readers, but he adds fresh details and provocative arguments ...

Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans and their earliest ancestors have been on the planet, it wouldn’t be surprising if ancient ... life gave rise to various ...

Around 3am, after considerable tossing and turning, I rise and peer out at younger ... and their loss is less profound. The fall of an ancient tree is a sad occasion. It marks the death of a ...

Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons For centuries in China, men and women gathered to play a game called Cuju. Considered an ancient form of soccer ... After the Mongol invasion and the rise of ...

Economists had been expecting a sharper fall in the number of jobs created following the decline ... The FTSE 100 (^FTSE) and European stocks also advanced as China’s Ministry of Commerce said it was ...

Meanwhile, the FTSE 100 (^FTSE) lagged slightly behind its European peers amid reports that the Trump administration has reached out to China for talks on tariffs ... driven by a 3.6% slump in the US, ...

And stocks could fall again as uncertainty remains high about ... except those against China. The S&P 500 soared 9.5 percent for one of its best days ever. Even that good news came with a bit ...

“Record large soybean supplies globally are going to limit the upside in prices, especially when we are seeing demand for U.S. soybeans fall due to the trade war with China,” said one grain ...

Investing.com - European equity indices rose strongly Friday, boosted by hopes of trade talks between the U.S. and China, while investors ... around 7% higher. The fall in the earlier part of ...