by Our Correspondent in Fuzhou , China The future of international cooperation is increasingly being shaped not only by what countries build, trade or invest in, but also by how their
Scientists have found that humanity’s love of kissing dates back far earlier than previously imagined, possibly originating with our distant ape ancestors 21 million years ago, a new study by the University
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The widow of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi has criticized President Donald Trump for ignoring her efforts to discuss her husband’s brutal murder with him, describing the experience as “painful,” according to an
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Britain will launch a network of new munitions factories in a major effort to strengthen its warfighting readiness and revive domestic production of military explosives after nearly two decades. Defence Secretary John
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The West’s effort to establish a domestic rare earth magnets supply chain, heavily supported by the U.S., is hitting a critical obstacle: a shortage of heavy rare earth elements, according to multiple
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Air India is lobbying the Indian government to persuade China to allow its flights through a restricted military airspace zone in Xinjiang, a move aimed at shortening international routes after Pakistan closed
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Jenny Button first imagined Emm during the COVID-19 lockdown while using an Oura ring and a Whoop monitoring band. She was gaining insights about her body but realized there was a glaring
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The newly released Anthropic investigation reveals that a state-sponsored threat group has carried out the first largely autonomous cyber-espionage campaign, using an AI system to execute nearly all stages of the attack
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The U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka proudly celebrated the 250th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps at the annual Marine Corps Ball on November 15, honoring a quarter-millennium of the Corps’
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Editor’s Note: This feature draws from a conversation with Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, joined by Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg, and Vineeta Agarwala, exploring the groundbreaking work of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
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China is launching an array of financial incentives—including wedding subsidies, child-rearing benefits and home-purchase grants—in an escalating attempt to reverse the country’s steep population decline, according to Times UK. The dramatic policy
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A mysterious organization led by an Israeli-Estonian national has helped hundreds of Palestinians leave the Gaza Strip in recent months, according to an investigation by Haaretz. The organization, called Al-Majd, offers Palestinians
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The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has warned that extreme heat is reshaping the “riskscape” across Asia and the Pacific, with 2024 recorded as the
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Amazon (AMZN.O) plans to raise $15 billion through its first U.S. dollar bond offering in three years, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, as major tech
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On a blustery day in western Ukraine, hundreds of arms developers, military personnel, diplomats, and investors gathered at the Lviv Defence Tech Valley forum to witness battle-tested drones in action. Ukraine’s deputy
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Ukraine is grappling with a severe manpower crisis as four out of every five draftees reportedly flee military training centres, a senior MP in Kyiv has warned, leaving the country struggling to
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