Category: General Interest

A trio of American, French and Canadian scientists won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for breakthroughs in laser technology that have turned light beams into precision tools for everything from eye surgery to micro-machining. The Nobel Prize in Physics is a yearly award given by the Royal…

American James Allison and Japanese Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries leading to new approaches in harnessing the immune system to fight cancer, the award-giving body said on Monday. The Nobel Prize is a set of six annual international…

The US military has suffered the first crash in its hugely expensive F-35 fighter jet programme. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, all-weather stealth multirole fighters. The fifth-generation combat aircraft is designed to perform ground attack and air superiority missions..

Brazil’s state oil company has agreed to pay more than $853m (£650m) to the US and Brazil, ending a long-running corruption investigation. Petrobras is a semi-public Brazilian multinational corporation in the petroleum industry headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Petrobras was created in 1953 under..

Canadian MPs have voted unanimously to rescind the honorary citizenship of Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Aung San Suu Kyi is the de facto leader of Myanmar. In 2015, she led her political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), to a majority win in Myanmar’s first openly…

Rome has announced a new budget deficit target of 2.4% of GDP, and aims to expand government spending on welfare. The new target is in violation of the deficit limit set by the EU on countries which have high national debt, like Italy. Italy is a unitary parliamentary republic in Europe. It is home to…

The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit accusing Tesla boss Elon Musk of securities fraud. The US financial regulator says Mr Musk’s claims that he had secured funding to take the electric carmaker private were “false and misleading”. Tesla is an American automaker founded in…

It raised US short-term interest rates for a third time this year and signalled it will forge ahead with plans to tighten policy. The interest rate hike comes despite the US being locked in a trade war with China. The Federal Reserve System (also known as the Federal Reserve or simply the Fed) is the…

As worldwide migration is on the rise, countries are offering the rich and wealthy a quicker path to residency, and in some cases citizenship. The pace of global immigration has accelerated since the 18th century. Manning distinguishes three major types of immigration as labor, refugee and urbanization. This phenomenon began..

The call for more participation was made during the UN’s unveiling of “Youth 2030”, a youth-centred action plan which aims to include the youth in more policy decision making roles across the world by the year 2030. The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked..