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Obituary: Geza Vermes, a Jew, ex-priest and translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls, died on May 8th aged 88 econ.st/13zt57x
In pinched times, motorbikes are valued more for their usefulness than their speedy glamour econ.st/10VXvRU
A council in Britain denied an application by Pinewood Studios, where the James Bond franchise is filmed, to expand econ.st/13yRmKU
A new survey on public opinion in Europe exposes lingering stereotyping and some historical mistrust econ.st/13z6Xdt
A report released in May found that in 2012 voting rates of black Americans exceeded that of whites econ.st/13B9bJe
Palestinians are turning to their televisions for political empowerment econ.st/12AZKsg
After five dry years, Brazil's oil-and-gas concession pipeline is flowing once more econ.st/17EOwaq
The housing boom before the financial crisis was remarkable for its global reach. The recovery after is patchy econ.st/18Qiojm
Israel's Arabs make up a fifth of Israel's people but fewer than 3% of its booming high-tech sector econ.st/12gZw7V
Web start-ups inspired by crowdfunding are helping locals raise cash for improvements to their neighbourhoods econ.st/18QiqaL
America's smaller airports have seen greater percentage drops in flight and passenger numbers than bigger hubs econ.st/17DWIrt
Mexicans are increasingly calling politicians and others to account for unjustifiable extravagance econ.st/111SL7m
#Dailychart: Today's chart is a guide to the key rebel forces in Syria, their leaders and ideology. See chart econ.st/12AtwNN
Trending: Same-sex marriage has cut strangely, and powerfully, across Northern Ireland's sectarian divide econ.st/12EuF5Q
Joshua Prager, the author of "Half-Life", discusses his disability and how time helped shape his story econ.st/1106lIs
Video: India needs to make 100m new, good jobs, or it risks squandering a once-in-a-generation demographic advantage econ.st/13zJ0CH
Researchers have been working on so-called quantum computers since the early 1980s. What is a quantum computer? econ.st/111JEUq
Users of Bloomberg terminals raised concerns on discovering the company's reporters could see when they had logged on econ.st/111DBiG
A British strand of Islam is emerging as more people become converts econ.st/10IwAUN
Building an America unburdened by debt years down the line is not a costless endeavour econ.st/107vNAl
This month America's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it would scrutinise caffeinated products econ.st/13zC4Wh
The arrest of one of the most notorious gangsters in the Balkans has unleashed speculation in the region's press econ.st/16xkHsd
The way that oil prices are set has come in for plenty of criticism econ.st/13liNV3
Projects planned to protect Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic have not made it past the drawing board econ.st/14kGI9y
Mark Sanford, South Carolina's disgraced ex-governor, finds redemption at the polls econ.st/10PAIHw
On May 15th Google unveiled a number of new and revamped offerings, including a music-streaming service econ.st/13z3wDv
#Dailychart: Today's chart is our interactive business-confidence graphic econ.st/10ZYlHn
Racism has always been predicated on falsifiable hypotheses about racial inferiority econ.st/104LJn4
Video: The chief economist at HSBC describes how the engines that once drove developed country growth are sputtering econ.st/13yR0Uy
Trending: The "religiosity" of a country's law generally tells you more about its history than present day feelings econ.st/143CAuV
At this year's Oslo Freedom Forum the opportunities and perils of the internet were much on people's minds econ.st/106ZmCc
Why are feral pigs in America so hard to control? econ.st/13z5rrD
The new issue of The Economist is now available to view online via our website: econ.st/13zccdh
Sir Alex Ferguson's success made him an alluring figure beyond football, especially to Britain's Labour Party econ.st/143IFHJ #SAF
In Benghazi, Libya, jihadist violence has become a regular occurrence, but a bombing on May 13th was different econ.st/19tVXxW
This week’s cover preview: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No… It’s Japan! May 18th – 24th 2013 pic.twitter.com/RS4pv4fSL0
Same-sex marriage has cut strangely, and powerfully, across Northern Ireland's sectarian divide econ.st/15NrONU
Riyadh, the Saudi capital, is unlikely to become an alternative to Dubai any time soon econ.st/143MTiL
The president of Nigeria has declared a state of emergency in three states that suffer frequent terror attacks econ.st/13lk66k
As patent wars have raged, disputes about "reasonable and non-discriminatory" terms have become more frequent econ.st/18HR0nn
Biased investigations by the Internal Revenue Service have outraged Republicans in America econ.st/16wFQCX
From 2007 into 2012, there often seemed to be a commodity-price speed limit to global growth econ.st/15MMaXt
A favour to a well-connected Indian clan has backfired on the South African government econ.st/10tpuTf
When David Cameron and Barack Obama talked Syria at the White House on May 13th, striking differences could be heard econ.st/142Vylt
The pace of America's fiscal consolidation is breathtaking econ.st/13liv0j
Video: Our editor discusses his new book about how our unprecedented access to data changes how we live and think econ.st/13iy8FJ
African countries should favour investors that create bigger spillovers for the local economy econ.st/10yv1be
In-flight Wi-Fi could end up being provided free to passengers so they can buy things they don't really need econ.st/10OYCmm
Is it unfair for famous people to use the crowdfunding site Kickstarter? econ.st/104Ms7w
#Dailychart: Today's chart is an interactive overview of European GDP, debt and jobs econ.st/13lpJkS