“Nations have characters, as well as individuals.” Benjamin Disraeli The shortest distance across the English Channel is a mere 33.1 km (20.6 miles). In the…
Rolls-Royce just unveiled the most amazingly ludicrous self-driving luxury vehicle
If you’re wealthy enough to afford a Rolls-Royce, and a chauffeur to ferry you around in it, then the idea of self-driving cars wouldn’t seem…
93-year-old Sumner Redstone just pulled off one of the greatest boardroom coups of his career
If Shakespeare wrote about corporate boards instead of royal families, the ongoing Viacom saga would deliver all the backstabbing and treachery he needed. In the…
Apple made a comic book out of its very technical app store rules
To mark the release of its updated app rules, Apple has transformed a technical guidance document to a zippy comic book (pdf) called App Review…
India is proof that healthcare miracles can save millions of children from death and disease
When I first started working on child health, one in five children died before their fifth birthday from diseases such as diarrhoea, pneumonia, tetanus, whooping…
“The world is watching”—appalled reactions to China’s kidnapping of a Hong Kong bookseller
Yesterday (June 16) one of five Hong Kong booksellers who went missing in recent months made a surprise revelation. Lam Wing-kee appeared at a press…