The World Health Organization predicts by 2050, 2 billion people will have vision impairment and advocates said the link between visual impairment and poverty calls for a greater focus on accessible ...

The police found two homemade Islamic State flags in the car of the suspects, a 50-year-old man and his 24-year-old son.

Musk envisions a future without the need to save money, claiming technological advancement will solve economic woes.

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As Christmas approaches and "Silent Night" fill churches and homes, it is worth remembering how unlikely its beginning truly ...

Virginia Woolf wrote tht we suffer from a "poverty of language" when we're in pain. Therapists must help patients to discover ...

And the loneliest place of all is Madagascar. The Economist flew there to find out why. Only the lonely... Most outsiders ...

U.S. limits on Venezuelan oil exports are cutting the revenue that once sustained Nicolás Maduro, weakening his cash flow and ...

The Economic Update also explores the link between high savings and household consumption behavior. Almost half of household ...

Guinea's Simandou mega mining project, promoted by the military government as a symbol of the country's economic ...

How much does an American family of four need to earn to avoid poverty? According to the Census Bureau, $32,130. But what if ...

Norman Podhoretz, the disputatious Commentary magazine editor who rose from poverty in Brooklyn to the heights of American ...