A Chinese state-owned ship-building company has converted a bulk carrier into a floating farm that will produce 2,800 tons of ...

In a world beset by war, corruption and environmental destruction, many assume that the greatest threat to humanity is evil or malice. But Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian who resisted ...

Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of ...

In December 1978, China and the US issued a Joint Communiqué in which the US side recognised “the government of the People’s ...

This has reference to an article by Dr Upul Wijayawardhana titled “Did the ‘unthinkable’ Happen?” in The Island of 22 July ...

The USSR under Stalin murdered almost all the known steadfast Marxists in the country. Those whom Stalin called "Trotskyites", the activists who stayed loyal to the working-class and democratic aims ...

In the 1960s and 70s, the youth of the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia rebelled by protesting against the ...

While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human ...