Venture capitalists are throwing money at startups in frenzy to find the next Uber

Tackling racial inequality in the criminal justice system has seen Bryan Stevenson praised as a ‘young Mandela’

Ken Perlin, who gave us special effects we take for granted today, looks at what will be ‘normal’ next

There is a clear correlation between the rise of modern finance and the US’s return to Gilded Age levels of inequality

Hollywood in shock as award-winning actor is found dead in New York apartment

Company has yet to make a profit on annual revenues of $600 million

A new book argues that our obsession with self-belief is leading to a culture of narcissism, that we should be less like Berlusconi and more like Merkel. Confidence should grow from competence and not the other way around

Chen jailed for four years until 2010 then kept under house arrest until fleeing after Clinton intervenetion

Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon at risk from potential Hizbullah reprisals on UN forces

In the first of a series, liquid sugars as a driver of obesity comes under scrutiny

The latest huge volume of the poet’s correspondence deals mainly with his failing first marriage, the complexities of his Anglican faith and his editorship of the ‘Criterion’