Saudi Arabia has officially abolished its decades-old Kafala system, a labour sponsorship model that long governed the lives of millions of migrant workers. The landmark decision, announced in June ...

Anthony Boyd was the eighth person executed by nitrogen gas since Alabama began using the method last year. His execution came over the strenuous objection of three liberal Supreme Court justices. By ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

In August, President Trump said Intel agreed to give the U.S. government the stake a week after he spoke with CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Photo: Annabelle Gordon/Bloomberg News Importance—for national security, ...

ISLAMABAD, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Border clashes over the weekend between Afghanistan and Pakistan led to the deaths of dozens of soldiers, the most serious clash between the two countries since the ...

“I am pretty certain it's going to go wrong.” Michael O’Leary, chief executive of Europe’s biggest budget airline, Ryanair, was not optimistic when I asked him about the prospects for the EU ...

The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted. By Zolan Kanno ...

The mining giant, its partners and the New South Wales and federal governments cannot solve the problem of high east coast energy prices that make the smelter an unviable future prospect. A legacy ...

While peers in the standard and advanced maths courses were left “in tears” by their own maths papers, Cherrybrook Technology High School Extension 2 students Aditya Patel, 17, and Xinda Zhar, 18, ...

Renowned for setting final questions so difficult even top mathematicians have to pause for thought, this year the script has flipped on the HSC’s most challenging exam. While peers in the standard ...