once noted that growing city-states were coming to replace nation-states in the global economy. The map above confirms it, showing the economic output of America's largest metropolitan areas ...

while four-in-nine nations were becoming less so. Similarly, Freedom House, based in Washington, D.C., points to growing numbers of nation-states with problematic elections and armed conflict to ...

Mr Martin said many attacks were "from hostile nation states" but that he was unable to give details even about "operational successes". On Monday, NCSC published the results of a two-year ...