Epic fail

Digital privacy

The Facebook scandal could change politics as well as the internet

Non-disclosure agreements

Memo to White House staff: keep talking

America and Taiwan

An innocuous-seeming law causes a ruckus

Politics in the Midwest

In Illinois politics, money talks

Firearms and the law

What works to reduce gun deaths

Gun laws

Switzerland does not prove the NRA’s case

The porn star and the president

Why Stormy Daniels is so dangerous

Odebrecht strikes again

The short unhappy presidency of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

Mourning Marielle

Lessons from a murder in Rio de Janeiro

Down and out in Ottawa

Why Canada’s prime minister is homeless

Bello

Mauricio Macri fights Argentina’s tradition of handouts for votes

Beating the bugs

How Bangladesh vanquished diarrhoea

Blank slates

Why billboards are under attack in Pakistan’s business capital

Impeachy keen

The chief justice of the Philippines is under attack

Red-bullfighter

A local election tests Indonesia’s ruling coalition

Pining for the paddyfields

Not all Japanese towns and villages are atrophying

Banyan

Hun Sen, Cambodia’s ruler, has been in power too long

The helmsman’s crew

China’s President Xi Jinping designates some sidekicks

Clot-hoppers

China bungles changes to its blood-donation system

Sisi v the sycophant

Egypt’s sham election features two candidates, but no choice

Where the fighters are female

A short history of Kurdish women on the front lines

Where to next for Turkey’s army?

After taking Afrin, Turkey looks for new targets in Syria

Creating a continental market

Forty-four African countries sign a free-trade deal

Loans, trains and automobiles

Did Kenya get a loan to build a railway, or vice versa?

Nigeria’s insurgency

Most of Nigeria’s kidnapped Dapchi schoolgirls are freed

The Malmo-Palermo express

Two giant engineering projects will alter the European landscape

Don’t mention the church

Catholics are keeping a low profile in Ireland’s abortion referendum campaign

Chemical paralysis

Why controlling chemical weapons is so hard

Turkey’s taxi war

Why Uber in Istanbul is costlier than a cab

Digging out of debt

Greece is set to leave its bail-out programme. Its troubles aren’t over

Quietly does it

Israel is cultivating new friends in the Balkans, but quietly

Charlemagne

Emmanuel Macron, the new Teddy Roosevelt

From cradle to court

The troubling surge in English children being taken from their parents

The Brexit negotiations

There’s something fishy about Britain’s Brexit transition deal

Red faces at a true-blue council

Northamptonshire council has gone bust. Who is to blame?

Stuck on repeat

A growing share of offenders have dozens of crimes to their name

Blue top

The Sun is toppled as Britain’s biggest newspaper

What’s the story, northern Tory?

The rise of the Teesside Tories

Technology and the state

The apps that put public services in citizens’ pockets

Bagehot

The trouble with open v closed

Talent shows

How and why to search for young Einsteins

Foreign internship

Endpoints

FDA wants to help unproductive drugmakers

Pharmaceuticals

Indian drugmakers need a new prescription

Engine trouble

The world’s three biggest engine-makers hit a snag

Calling time

Japan Inc and the government are trying to tackle overwork

Cloud $9bn

Dropbox goes public

The old one-two

The EU wants to tax tech giants’ revenues

Plastic flower of the flock

Li Ka-shing cedes a sprawling empire to his son

Schumpeter

Corporate citizens of somewhere

Goblin metals

What if China corners the cobalt market?

Buttonwood

Wall Street looks overvalued

Steel banned

Why tariffs on steel and aluminium are easier said than done

Capital control

Europeans fret that Chinese investment is a security risk

Green tape

The EU wants to make finance more environmentally friendly

Technology and international trade

The digitisation of trade’s paper trail may be at hand

Free exchange

Can’t hardly wait

The behavioural ecology of machines

To understand digital advertising, study its algorithms

Planetary cataclysms

Saturn’s rings and several of its moons may be recent creations

Scientific foibles

An astronomers’ meeting turns into a haiku competition

Autonomous vehicles

A pedestrian has been killed by a self-driving car

Drug resistance

Non-antibiotic drugs promote antibiotic resistance

Science correspondent’s job

Gospel truths

A symbolic struggle over ancient manuscripts

The scent of a life

A child bride who longed to dance

Pursued by a Bear

The damage overbearing fathers do to sons

The undead

A compelling look at the flaws in the Chinese economy

The distant shore

Peril on the sea, in art and music

The last of Vaudeville

Ken Dodd died on March 11th