India's expectations from the Budget, insights into the Economic Survey, and other important stories from the week gone by.

Chart: The Economist Brazil holds nearly a quarter of the world’s known deposits of rare earths, second only to China (see chart). Besides prime geology, the country boasts a sturdy extractive ...

The Kew Gardens 50p coin is the second most valuable 50p coin and one sold for more than £83 in Worcester on eBay.

China has executed 11 members of the notorious Ming family criminal gang, who ran mafia-like scam centers in Myanmar and ...

Europe is playing a long game but must speed up and pledge more money. One rare-earth element, Europium, is abbreviated to Eu. It is used in bright red lights such as alarm signals. If China blocks ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a ...

With gold prices setting new all-time highs this week, customers have been cramming into stores in Shanghai and Hong Kong that sell the precious metal, with some betting the price could rise even ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will host an inaugural Critical Minerals summit in February that offers a unique opportunity to promote recycling.

Gathering Global Leaders to Examine the Economic Outlook and Reinforce Hong Kong's Role as an International Financial Centre ...

Oil built the 20th century. Rare earths and critical minerals is building the 21st. Every electric vehicle, wind turbine, solar panel, and guided missile depends on materials one country controls.

Your pennies could be worth far more than a single cent — and there’s how easy ways to tell. Several rare versions of the ...