WHEN THE Arab states of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC) imposed an embargo on America and other allies of Israel during the Yom Kippur war in 1973, the cartel’s dominance of energy markets felt unshakeable....
HONDA TAMIKO began working as a child on her family’s farm back when Japan was at war with America. Now 93, Ms Honda still puts in a hard day’s toil as a janitor at a McDonald’s branch in Kumamoto, in southern Japan. Ms Honda says her pension...
IT IS ONE of the world’s most unequal countries. Thanks to its colonial and slave-importing past, Brazil is one of the most racially mixed countries, too. To cross it can feel like visiting different continents. The Amazon jungle gives way to...
IF THE LEADERS of China and America meet in Beijing in the middle of May as planned, look out for a tall, white-haired figure sitting immediately to the right of Xi Jinping, the Chinese president. Cai Qi may be the second-most powerful person...
