Making of an empire. As a bold young man, Chandragupta Maurya, the future king of the Mauryan Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the Great, who had crossed the Indus River ...

On July 11, Virgin Galactic’s space plane V.S.S. Unity lit its rocket motor and flew to more than 53 miles above Earth’s surface, sending the company’s founder Richard Branson to the edge of ...