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This season offers a chance to slow down and reflect on our lives

Meet the carpenter preserving a rich history of carnivals and characters

Our festive viewing habits reflect Yuletide’s carnivalesque nature, a time when eccentric choices are celebrated

Flexible economies and free markets have kept globalisation going this year

From ending zero-hour contracts to boosting benefits, Britain’s new government wants to shift power back to staff

Xi and Putin defy ‘rules-based’ order. Gillian Tett looks back to assess globalisation’s future. Investors chase the AI grail. Threat to democracy in ‘year of elections’. Latin America’s chance. Africa’s leadership. Davos and memory of times gone by

Critics say the vice-president is yet to clearly define her foreign policy vision. But the contours of a philosophy are starting to emerge

Relying on American military power to protect Red Sea shipping routes is risky

Everything will change for European and Asian democracies if a man bent on dictatorship re-enters the White House

Countries across the continent have been unable to capitalise on their demographic dividend