What the controversial new “Snow White” can teach Hollywood
“Snow White”, Disney’s live-action remake of a beloved animated film, had an icy reception before its release in cinemas on M...
Catch up:Heathrow closes after fire; EU discusses Ukraine aid
London’s Heathrow airport has been closed until midnight on Friday after a fire at a nearby electrical substation caused powe...
Catch up:Heathrow to reopen after fire; Germany passes funding bill
London’s Heathrow airport said it would reopen after a fire at a nearby electrical substation caused it to close for most of ...
Why don’t seals drown?
FREE-DIVING IS a perilous sport. Divers, swimming underwater without oxygen tanks, frequently black out from low oxygen and p...
Ageism is rampant in Chinese companies
On March 5th China’s prime minister, Li Qiang, in his annual speech at the National People’s Congress (npc), China’s rubber-s...
America’s strikes on the Houthis could whip up a regional tempest
America and its allies have repeatedly gone after the Houthis, Yemeni rebels backed by Iran, since they started attacking shi...
A Northern Irish factory has a deal to make missiles for Ukraine
Belfast used to be known as a place where weapons were fired rather than made. But a nondescript factory in a suburb of North...
A coup attempt in Tigray raises tensions in the Horn
For weeks there had been troubling signs: homes raided by unknown assailants; activists beaten in the street. Then, on March ...
Cambridge yimbies
RESTORED QUEEN ANNE houses sell for more than $10m in Cambridge, a small city across the Charles River from Boston. Victorian...
China is developing some startling new kit in its quest to seize Taiwan
Is it a barge? Is it a bridge? It is both. Last summer China began building several unusual vessels at its Guangzhou shipyard...