A glimmer of hope has accompanied rays of sunshine across Europe after several countries reported consecutive days of fewer coronavirus cases – and one nation set a possible date for lockdown to be lifted. Spain led the charge after its daily number of new...

How will the coronavirus change the world? Nobody knows yet. But we do know where we were before the pandemic hit: inequality had reached historic records worldwide, Australia had burned for months on end, autocrats were suffocating democracy in Hungary and Venezuela,...