Google will one day be able to drive a car for you. It can help you compose your e-mails and finish your thoughts now, automatically. And now, in a spooky view of the future, it can even make phone calls on your behalf. Google’s display of artificial intelligence and what computers are now capable of this week […]

North Korea says it will begin dismantling its nuclear test site in less than two weeks in a ceremony attended by foreign journalists. Pyongyang said it was taking “technical measures” to carry out the process between 23-25 May, North Korean state news agency KCNA reported on Saturday. Scientists previously said the site may have partially […]

While we deeply admire multi-step skin care routines, self-care rituals like gua sha, and experimenting with new products, sometimes keeping it simple is exactly what our mind, body, and skin need. There’s something innately beautiful about a minimalistic routine—you save time and money and allow your natural beauty to shine through rather than tirelessly trying to manipulate it. […]

Donald Glover says he’s truly living a dream he’s had since he was a young child, watching Star Wars with his dad. While Solo: A Star Wars Story is, ostensibly, a film about the beloved roguish smuggler Han Solo in his younger years, one of the most anticipated performances comes from Glover as a youthful Lando Calrissian — and for the acclaimed Atlanta star, getting […]

The EU is scrambling to find ways to safeguard huge business deals with Iran, amid the threat of US penalties. Washington is re-imposing strict sanctions on Iran, which were lifted under the 2015 international deal to control the country’s nuclear ambitions. On 8 May President Donald Trump denounced the deal, saying he would withdraw the […]

Iran has backed Syria’s “right to defend itself” after Israel launched strikes on what it said was Iranian military infrastructure inside Syria. In the first comments by Iran since Thursday’s wave of strikes, the foreign ministry condemned the “blatant violation of Syria’s sovereignty”. The strikes were the heaviest carried out by Israel on Syria in […]

MOSCOW – Russia is not in talks with the Syrian government about supplying advanced S-300 ground-to-air missiles and does not think they are needed, the Izvestia daily cited a top Kremlin aide as saying on Friday, in an apparent U-turn by Moscow. The comments, by Vladimir Kozhin, an aide to President Vladimir Putin who oversees […]

In the year 2000, just 10.5 million Chinese travelled overseas. That was less than 1.5 per cent of all international travellers for that year. In 2017 Chinese tourists made 145 million cross-border trips according to the China Outbound Tourism Research Institute. Today, more than one in every 10 international travellers comes carrying a Chinese passport, […]

Study recovers oldest viral genomes, and shows the hepatitis B virus has been circulating in Europe for at least 7,000 years. An international team of scientists led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Kiel has successfully reconstructed genomes from Stone Age and Medieval European […]

Israel says it has struck almost all of Iran’s military infrastructure inside Syria in its biggest assault since the start of the civil war there. The strikes came after 20 rockets were fired at Israeli military positions in the occupied Golan Heights overnight. Syria’s military said the Israeli “aggression” had killed three people. There was […]