<strong>Richard Adams</strong> examines the outcome of the deal raising the US government’s debt ceiling.

Today’s teenagers learn bad behaviour from their email-obsessed parents "that it’s OK to put people on pause".

Arianna Huffington and <i>New York Times</i> editor Bill Keller trade barbs over what makes news work on the web.

The <i>New York Times</i> reports that Google is working on a tablet computer rival to Apple’s iPad that will run Flash.

Sarah Palin’s tub-thumping speech gave a foretaste of her campaign for the presidency, with divine help from God.

The weka is an odd bird. With spindly legs, tubby body and a narrow, bobbing head, it picks its way through the New Zealand bush. It is famously shy, but such is the tranquillity…