The business of quantum computers 量子计算机蕴藏的商机 Uncertainty principals 不确定性原理 Quantum computing is attracting commercial interest 量子计算正在吸引商业利益 Big, stable quantum computers would be useful devices....
Offering citizenship as a form of atonement is common. Austria, which normally restricts dual nationality, now allows descendants of Jews who were expelled, or fled, during the 1930s and 1940s to claim a passport. A similar right can be found in Germ...
Some EU countries, particularly those with large diasporas, dish out the burgundy like a wine wholesaler at Christmas. Ireland allows anyone with an Irish grandparent to claim Irish citizenship. Given Irish enthusiasm for emigration, this leaves an u...
Europe 欧洲板块 Charlemagne 查理曼专栏 The right to sell passports 出售护照的权利 A crackdown on golden passports raises questions about citizenship the EU would rather not answer 对黄金护照的打击引发了有关公民身份的问...
The income of workers across the world will have fallen by an average 10.7% in the first nine months of this year compared with the same period last year, according to the International Labour Organisation. That amounts to $3.5trn. The percentage of...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Business 经济 Following weeks of courting, CaixaBank made it official and agreed to take over Bankia, creating Spains biggest lender with 650bn euros ($760bn) in assets. Getting married in difficult times make...
But they also see the childhood traumas that drove the Kid into the gang such as the dark room into which his fathers boss at a coffee plantation disappeared with his 15-year-old sister and the disillusion that made him try to leave it. His choice to...
The best reporting on MS-13 is by local journalists, including El Faro, which has churned out cinematic dispatches from gang-torn barrios for more than a decade. A recent string of murders on Long Island led to a spate of stories in America, includin...
How a group of metal heads in Los Angeles in the 1980s evolved into a gang that terrorises three countries is the subject of MS-13 by Steven Dudley, founder of Insight Crime, a site that covers organised crime in Latin America. The story begins with...
Books and arts 文艺板块 Book review 书评 Gangs and governments 黑帮与政府 The monster and the boys 怪物和游击队员们 Two books explain how a street gang born in Los Angeles has wreaked havoc in Central America 通过两本书解释了...
