Could self-made Indian-American billionaire Baiju Bhatt be the next space-age Elon Musk? His hugely ambitious energy start-up, Aetherflux, aims to produce solar power in space and beam it down to tiny Earth-based power stations using highly focused lasers... See more
The 1952 Great Smog of London lasted barely five days, yet it shocked policymakers into action. Visibility dropped to five feet, making crossing the road perilous; soot filled the air, people collapsed in the streets struggling to breathe, and hospitals w... See more
The official line is that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif suddenly felt unwell and dashed off to London to consult doctors. But nobody in Islamabad is swallowing that without a large pinch of salt. His conveniently timed trip fell on the very day A... See more
Is this the man who has grabbed all the levers of power — or a military strongman, with tanks and troops massed behind him, now teetering on the brink of a precipice of his own making? That’s the question swirling around Pakistan’s Field Marshal Asim Muni... See more
President Donald Trump has just handed China a huge prize on a platter — one that they should have had to fight for much harder.
At last week’s summit in South Korea, Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping for what both sides described as a “meeting of eq... See more