AS AMERICA PREPARES to go to the polls on November 6th, the country is more divided and angry than it has been in decades. Campaigning for the mid-terms has been marred by politicians routinely treating each other as rogues, fools or traitors. In recent days a supporter of President Donald Trump has sent bombs to…
Perhaps nowhere has Mr. Trump’s persistent use of inflammatory language become as much of an issue as in Pennsylvania, where Republicans were already bracing to suffer losses in some newly drawn House districts before a gunman fixated on immigration massacred 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday. At a gathering in a tavern outside Philadelphia…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionStaff leave New York offices over women's treatment Staff at Google offices around the world are staging an unprecedented series of walkouts in protest at the company's treatment of women.The employees are demanding several key changes in how sexual misconduct allegations are dealt with at the firm,…
These are interesting times for Google. Last week, The New York Times spilled the beans about a $90 million “exit package” Android creator Andy Rubin was purportedly paid to leave quietly after a sexual harassment allegation in 2014. Then came the news that Google has fired 48 other people over the past couple of years,…
Enlarge / The Nobel Prize-winning first direct detection of gravitational waves announced in 2016 is being called into question. LIGO calls shenanigans. The first direct detection of gravitational waves was announced on February 11, 2016, spawned headlines around the world, snagged the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, and officially launched a new era of so-called "multi-messenger"…
LONDON (Reuters) - A deal that would give London’s vast financial services hub basic access to European Union markets after Brexit is nearly done, a British official said. Canary Wharf skyline and the City of London can be seen from the Sea Containers building in London, Britain, October 11, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls Such a deal…
The top cyber and communications spy in Australia has explained why Huawei and ZTE have been barred from the country's 5G network and China is unimpressed. Mike Burgess, the director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate, said in Canberra on Monday that the ban on Chinese telecom firms like Huawei Technologies and ZTE was in Australia's…
NINE YEARS ago Asia Bibi, a poor farm labourer from Pakistan’s tiny Christian minority, went to fetch a jug of water from a well for the Muslim women working beside her in the fields. It was a hot day. She took a sip before passing the water on, inadvertently initiating a furore that has lasted…
WASHINGTON — Diplomatic pressure from the United States and Britain, Saudi Arabia’s biggest arms suppliers, abruptly intensified on Wednesday for a cease-fire in the Yemen war, the world’s worst man-made humanitarian disaster. The calls for a halt to the three-and-a-half-year-old conflict — made by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, his British counterpart, Jeremy Hunt, and…
Image copyright PA Image caption Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was a columnist for the Washington Post Turkey has given its first official statement on how it believes writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed, saying he was immediately strangled.The statement follows weeks of media reports about the murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October.…
