On December 30, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced that four new elements are being added to the periodic table. The group had...
President Barack Obama's CNN town hall on guns was a muddle. Still, it was an interesting and, for the president, potentially educational one. Obama...
It has been more than a year and a half since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power on a promise to build a new India, one founded on a radical...
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As 2015 ended, the world boasted few areas of robust growth. At a time when both developed and emerging-market countries need rapid growth to maintain...
When the Venezuelan opposition won a landslide victory in December's legislative elections, defenders of Latin American democracy were heartened....
Twitter's founder Jack Dorsey has taken a lot of flak for tweetingon Wednesday that the company might abandon its 140-character-per-post limit. Many see...
One evening last week, I was sitting in a café at the Wave Muscat and watched people. I had my eyes on a red Ferrari that cruised past. But I was not the...