World View

When you find yourself shouting at the television screen, you know it’s time to take a break.

Elon Musk is heading for a crash.

"I have consulted with my father on all issues, whether on private matters or about work, since I was young," said Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thailand’s new and youngest prime minister at 37 years of age.

Ukraine's major cross-border attack into the Kursk region of Russia last week has triggered the usual claims and counter-claims.

Carles Puigdemont, the self-exiled leader of the Catalan separatist movement, aspires to become the new Scarlet Pimpernel.

When you spend four years writing a book on climate change, you get to know most of the leading players. I have never seen them so dismayed.

The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip since October’s Hamas attacks on Israeli settlements will reach 40,000 people in the next week or so — it’s back up to about 50-100 civilian dead per day.

The past week has been a roller-coaster ride for Donald Trump.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iranian TV just before the second round of voting on Sunday "I have heard that people’s zeal and interest is higher than in the first round [of Iran’s presidential election] . . . It is wrong to assume those who abstained in the first round are opposed to Islamic rule."

Nothing else in France looks like the 1930s, so why should fascism?