Exit polls showed that runaway inflation loomed large in Trump’s victory over Democrat Kamala Harris. In an ABC News poll, ...

The World Ahead 2026 will be the 40th edition of The Economist ’s future-gazing annual, published every November since 1986, to provide a guide to the trends, themes and people likely to shape the ...

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Airbnb began with Mr Chesky and two friends renting out an airbed in their living room in San Francisco. The idea of a platform to help people open up their homes to paying guests proved a hit, and ...

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Pope Leo XIV will pray at the site of the 2020 port blast in Beirut that killed over 200 people and compounded Lebanon’s ...

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The world should watch out for three possible bubbles in financial markets, including artificial intelligence, the head of ...