For a small island with no natural groundwater, Singapore’s water self-sufficiency is remarkable. By looking ahead to climate change, the nation has become a global example of sustainable water manage...
Representative Image (Source: Reuters) Iran said more than 30 civilians have been killed in recent US strikes on southern Iran, as US President Donald Trump warned that Washington would target Iranian...
Fear rarely announces itself as useful. Mike Tyson, the former heavyweight boxing champion, argued it can be exactly that, provided it never gets the upper hand. “Fear is like fire,” he wr...
Back in 2017, Saudi Arabia announced something that sounded almost too big to be real, an entire new region along the Red Sea coast, bigger than Belgium, built from scratch around clean energy, zero c...
Saudi Arabia warns overstaying expats could lead to fines and jail. Saudi Arabia has warned expatriates that remaining in the Kingdom after the expiry of their entry visas could result in fines of up ...
By the mid-1800s, much of New England had been stripped of the forests that had once blanketed the region. Centuries of logging, expanding farms and growing settlements transformed vast woodlands into...
China has some of the most polluted cities on the planet, and for years the usual fixes, stricter emission rules, factory shutdowns, better public transport, have only chipped away at the problem. So ...
Blood, fingerprints, and weapons aren’t the only evidence investigators look for at a crime scene; pollen is another. Pollen grains are one piece of evidence that has helped solve some of the hi...
More than four centuries after the Spanish treasure galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha disappeared beneath the waters off the Florida Keys, the legendary shipwreck has yielded another remarkable discove...
A Kathmandu court has sentenced two former Nepal ministers and 14 others to prison after convicting them in a case involving the alleged creation of fake documents. The documents were reportedly used ...