In the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December, developed and developing nations are already preparing themselves for the outcome, a multilateral deal or not. This approach is bound to harm the prospects for reversing global warming, for fostering free trade, and for ensuring...
GENEVA: How do we protect the environment and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, while preserving our economic growth? In the run-up to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December, this question has been on the minds of big and small players,...
The heart-wrenching and horrible daily accounts of suicide bombings rarely reveal the underlying cause of the bombers’ motivations. But a comprehensive database at Australia’s Flinders University that has compiled information on these types of attacks from as early as 1981 can shed light on such...
A model grandma: Family member holds up a picture of Fatma Omar An-Anajar, the oldest Palestinian sucide bomber who blew herself up in Gaza on November 23rd, 2006
ADELAIDE: Suicide bombing attacks have become a weapon of choice among terrorist...
China insists that its One Belt, One Road initiative stretching along three continents will benefit the entire world with $1 trillion in infrastructure improvements. But some countries harbor doubts. Businesses and governments in the West express concern that the massive trade and infrastructure...
Complicated road: Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev to discuss One Belt, One Road and other projects at the June meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization; the Chinese-built Gwadar port in...
Forced to drop out of school at age 14 because his family could no longer afford tuition, William Kamkwamba of Malawi set out to study energy and build windmills on his own. “Energy poverty” limits development, economies and jobs in the world’s poorest nations, explains Sarah Childress for the Wall...
MASITALA, Malawi – On a continent woefully short of electricity, 20-year-old William Kamkwamba has a dream: to power up his country one windmill at a time.
So far, he has built three windmills in his yard...
A common strategy in geopolitical rivalries is to accrue alliances, strengthen positions and counter competitors. Of course, Asia is rich with historic rivalries: India and China, Pakistan and India, Iran and Pakistan, Iran and the US, the US and China. Two ports in the Arabian Sea, one in Iran...
PARIS: Sino-Indian rivalry in the Indian Ocean and India’s naval cooperation with the US draw the world’s attention. But quietly, out of sight, a contest has been building in the Arabian Sea centered between two ports, one based in Pakistan and the...
Research repeatedly demonstrates that globalization delivers prosperity through trade and jobs, new technologies and ideas, cooperation and peace. But many individuals fear open societies, change and competition. Innovative technologies, especially robotics and artificial intelligence, compound the...
Winners and losers: Investment in Japanese automobiles and motorcycles is popular in Hungary while a US automobile plant in Detroit is abandoned
NEW HAVEN: Some argue that globalization delivers great benefits to the world, increasing wealth with...
US President-elect Donald Trump follows a pattern, confounding global media and world leaders with provocative statements on Twitter, at rallies or during television programs. His staff then attempts to reassure the public with interpretations and insistence that social media messages do not...
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Hollywood films represent more than half, and sometimes more than two-thirds of total box-office receipts in major markets. Films that succeed in the US market also tend to succeed in foreign markets. This suggests that a convergence of popular taste may be coming about, though in many countries...
A New James Bond Movie: Die Another Day starring Pierce Brosnan
From the early years of the twentieth century, right down to the present, the United States has been the world's major commercial producer of motion pictures. According to the US...
