In what has become the first known death of a pedestrian by an autonomous vehicle, a self-driving Uber car has killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona. The woman was crossing […] More

Behind the scenes of Sierra Leone’s presidential election Wednesday, a second, perhaps larger milestone was quietly achieved. As voters lined up to cast votes in what had been a heated […] More

Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) headquarters in Cheltenham, UK. Photo: Defence Images. Used under Creative Commons license Six global telecommunications companies – British Telecom, Interoute, Level Three, Verizon Enterprise, Viatel […] More

A social media campaign is pressuring Sweden to adopt a Turkish-style flag due to Islam’s rapid growth in the country. A petition asking Sweden’s prime minister to do away with the […] More

We noted in June that Zimbabwe’s cash crisis continued unabated. Those awaiting cash transfers at a bank may wait a month to be cleared and, even then, the transfer […] More

President Putin arrived in Tehran on 1 November for talks with the Ayatollah Khamenei. First, to cement the Nuclear Agreement of 2015 (Vienna), as far as Russia is concerned, thereby sidelining […] More

In another stunning turn of events, All of the tier three defendants in the Bundy Ranch trials, including Cliven and Ammon Bundy and Ryan Payne have all been given […] More

Smithsonian Magazine this month published a stunning map detailing just how expansive the post-9/11 "war on terror" has become, demonstrating that contrary to the common assumption that it’s "winding down" more […] More