Single-use plastic and packaging has become an essential part of our lives. In the UK, households collectively throw away an estimated 100 billion pieces of plastic...
The 2023 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine will go to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discovery that modifying mRNA – a form of...
Billions of people around the world have received the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. The rapid development of these vaccines changed the course of the pandemic,...
Efforts to ban books in public schools and public libraries reached an all-time high in 2022 and show few signs of abating for 2023, according to...
On Sept. 30, 2023, Pope Francis swore in 21 clergymen as new members of the College of Cardinals. The College is an important part of the...
Argentina is heading to the polls on October 22 for a presidential election dominated by another profound economic crisis. In September, annual inflation in Latin America’s...
LONDON – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Sunday ruled out any plan in the near term to send British soldiers to Ukraine. Sunak said Defense Secretary...
Tax cuts, crime, the cost of living, potholes and co-governance … these and various other issues are now familiar to most voters. But there has been...
ANKARA – US President Joe Biden signed a short-term spending bill last Saturday to keep the government open for the immediate future ahead of a critical midnight...
Futurology is littered with predictions that failed to materialise, not least in the field of transport technology. In Edwardian times, when public transport was largely powered...