Japan railgun plan aimed for NK missiles
The project has been given impetus by advances in weaponry, such as the short-range missile NK fired on Monday.
The project has been given impetus by advances in weaponry, such as the short-range missile NK fired on Monday.
Such is the Labour left’s loathing for Keir Starmer and their vituperative rejection of him that they may soon have to leave the party. That could be the icing on the leader’s cake.
French pupils must be educated with a ‘critical spirit’ in order to better spot disinformation and fake news, President Macron says
The condom manufacturing giant says people are having less sex during the pandemic, devastating its sales and forcing it to diversify into rubber surgical gloves.
The crash is a blow to the self-governing island’s hope of using the warplanes to boost its defence against rising threats from Beijing.
The legislation will add to the draconian national security law imposed on Hong Kong by Beijing at the end of June 2020.
Hollywood has been accused of taking political correctness too far and sidelining white men in pursuit of diversity.
The Smash Dragon weapons system, designed by Israelis, can be mounted on different forms of unmanned aerial platforms.
After sharing pictures of his 32-year-old girlfriend, the former Italian PM threatened to pull his Forza Italia party out of the ruling coalition and force snap elections.
Talks held this week between the US and Russia on the Ukraine issue remain deadlocked.
The chief economist at SooChow Securities, Ren Zeping, has suggested the creation of a national ‘birth fund’.
Cabinet ministers tell Boris Johnson to ‘take his medicine’ and apologise for Downing Street party: ‘everyone knows this happened’.
Two weeks after Neil Ferguson resigned as a UK government adviser for lockdown breaches and Downing St invites staff to a party? Don’t say ‘what did you expect?’ I demand better.
History has taught the Elysee incumbent to take nothing for granted when the country votes for a new ‘emperor’.
A patient in the US has received a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig, in a groundbreaking procedure.
Denmark plans to force social media companies to remove illegal posts within 24 hours after trolls tormented the family of a terrorism victim with videos of her murder.
Police contact the British government over evidence one of Boris Johnson’s most senior officials invited dozens of staff to a drinks party during a national lockdown.
The past seven years were the seven hottest on record globally ‘by a clear margin’, according to the EU’s climate-monitoring service.
Eating more than half a tablespoon of olive oil daily is linked to a lower risk of dying from illnesses including heart disease and cancer, a study has found.
The appointment is the latest sign of Beijing remoulding the international business hub in its own authoritarian image after the mass pro-democracy protests of 2019.
China welcomes four Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, and Kuwait – all traditional US allies – to a four-day summit in Beijing.
We should stifle the urge to be outraged at the Djokovic verdict as differences of opinion don’t have to turn us into tribes.
Two Saudi princesses who were arrested three years ago for offending Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have been freed after an international campaign.
Until last month Sergeant John Gonsalves’s letter lay unopened in a US Postal Service distribution facility in Pittsburgh.
Immune systems can no longer tell the difference between healthy cells and an attacking virus or bacterium.
A list of events and initiatives being organised to celebrate the Queen’s 70th year on the throne has been unveiled.
Fraudster Elizabeth Holmes shows what happens when the hubristic urge to change the world comes up against reality.
Better to lead a rich and fulfilled life with time’s winged chariot at your back than stumble on for decades merely existing.
Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump’s former secretary of state, has lost 41kg, stoking speculation that he is preparing a 2024 run for president.
New carbon dating of two helmets has revealed that Vikings may have shunned horns as simply being out of fashion.
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