Taiwan’s president rejected on Thursday a “one country, two systems” formula that Beijing has suggested could be used to unify the island and the mainland, saying such an arrangement had set Hong Kong “on the edge of disorder”. President Tsai Ing-wen also vowed in a National Day speech to defend ... Read More »
Thousands of climate-change protesters took to the streets in cities around the world on Monday, launching two weeks of peaceful civil disobedience to demand immediate action to cut carbon emissions and avert an ecological disaster. In London, police arrested 276 activists from the Extinction Rebellion group as they blocked ... Read More »
Tomb discovered by construction workers digging for sewage drain A 2,200-year-old Egyptian temple from the era of Pharaoh Ptolemy IV has been uncovered on the bank of the Nile. The tomb was discovered by construction workers digging for a sewage drain in the village of Kom Shaku in the Tama ... Read More »
Officials scramble to understand implications of US move as Kurds face prospect of invasion alonecials scramble to understand implications of US move as Kurds face prospect of invasion alone Kurdish forces in Syria have said the fate of tens of thousands of suspected Islamic State fighters and their families ... Read More »
Nasa wants to send shapeshifting robots to the mysterious, alien moons around saturn. The space agency hopes that the visionary robots – which “turn ideas that sound like science fiction into science fact” – can finally help us learn more about the worlds’ surface, as well as helping shed light ... Read More »
Prime Minister Saad Hariri arrived in Abu Dhabi Sunday on the first leg of an Arab and foreign tour aiming to drum up Arab and international financial and investment support for Lebanon to help it overcome its economic crisis, officials said. During the two-day official visit to the United ... Read More »
Bank forced to shed jobs due to low interest rates and global uncertainty, FT reports HSBC is planning to lay off up to 10,000 staff, according to reports on Monday, just weeks after its chief executive stepped down and announced the axing 4,000 posts citing a weak global outlook. ... Read More »
HP Inc. plans to reduce its global staff by thousands of employees over the next three years. HP (HPQ) said Thursday that it intends to cut between 7,000 and 9,000 workers “through a combination of employee exits and voluntary early retirement.” It expects to complete the culling in the company’s ... Read More »
It is very exciting to clearly see for the first time multiple and extended filaments of gas connecting galaxies in the early universe,’ says researcher Faintly glowing wisps of gas have given astronomers a rare glimpse of one of the universe’s largest but most elusive features – the intergalactic filaments ... Read More »
Days after Beijing unveils state-of-the-art missiles, Moscow reveals plan that would ‘radically enhance China’s defence capability’ Russian president Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow is helping China build a system to warn of ballistic missile launches. Since the cold war, only the United States and Russia have had such systems, ... Read More »
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