From Wordle to Scrabble: Do word games bring out the worst in people?
The digital puzzles editor at ‘The New York Times’ often receives insults and threats over the words he chooses for the daily riddles
Brazil’s Lula on presidential election: ‘We’re going to win, this is only a delay’
The left-wing former president is confident that he will triumph in a runoff against the right-wing Bolsonaro, despite the unexpectedly close result in the first round
‘We found a planet that shows us what the Earth will be like in five billion years’
Astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger is searching for biomarkers on worlds beyond our Solar System
Why the US dollar’s supremacy is hurting the rest of the world
The foreign exchange market has been roiled by government interventions in Japan and the United Kingdom, while the greenback’s strength continues to cause inflationary pressure
Why millennials are the new online dinosaurs
Those born between 1980 and 1996 are already past their sell-by-date. Generation Z is now in charge, but it too will be swept away soon by the Alphas. We are all past it, or will be in about one minute
The long journey to neoconservatism of British PM Liz Truss
Once anti-royalist, anti-Thatcher and anti-Brexit, the Tory leader made a radical political shift to become the heroine of Conservative Party hardliners. But what will her new U-turn on tax cuts do for her image?
Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega escalates diplomatic crisis with US and Europe
In the past week, the Nicaraguan government has broken ties with the Netherlands, pushed out the EU ambassador and announced it will not accept Washington’s new representative in the country
Putin takes the war to its most dangerous phase after suffering serious setbacks
The advances of the Ukrainian army in the areas annexed by Russia mark a key point in the conflict. Winter will be a crucial time for Moscow but also for the West
Six takeaways from Brazil’s election
The vote yielded unexpected wins in key districts, confirmed a conservative majority in Congress and evidenced how polls underestimated Jair Bolsonaro
Lula narrowly wins first round of Brazil’s presidential elections, will face Bolsonaro in runoff
The ex-president from the Workers’ Party garnered 48% of the vote, while the incumbent right-wing president held strong at 43.5%