Munich / AFP The teenager who shot dead nine people at a Munich shopping mall spent a year planning the rampage but selected his victims at random, officials said on Sunday. Details are emerging of gunman David Ali Sonboly as a depressed 18-year-old who was obsessed with mass killings and had long struggled with his mental health. Friday’s shooting …

  WASHINGTON It’s the revolution of rising expectations again. Watching Donald Trump last week, I thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, the French political philosopher whose “Democracy in America,” published in the 1830s, remains the most insightful study of our national character. But it was de Tocqueville’s other masterpiece, “The Old Regime and the French Revolution” (1856), that came foremost to …

  The pledge made by the world’s leading economies to do more to lift global growth to deal with fallout from Britain’s Brexit vote and counter dissatisfaction with globalisation is important. These will definitely reverse the slowing global economic growth. With the focus of the British leave vote, the Group of 20 nations hoped to see the UK as a …