
Hawks descend at Jackson Hole
The talk at this year’s central bankers’ conflab was all about the need to weather recession to tame inflation, except in Japan.

Covid incubation gets shorter with each new variant
Chinese researchers discover it's taking less time for symptoms of the potentially deadly virus to appear.

Six months of Putin's war unravels Russia’s superpower image
The conflict has laid bare the limits of Moscow's military prowess, even if its economy is holding up better than expected.

Twitter whistle-blower will be star witness
"Mudge" Zatko alleges Twitter took a lax attitude to user data. His former employer says he was bad at his job.