The two centres of this crisis are the 24-mile Strait of Hormuz south of Iran and 7,000 miles away in the White House. This week was the unique opportunity for the rest of the world to make its economic case to US President Donald Trump’s administration directly at the Spring meeting of the International Monetary…
ARLINGTON — Cristiano Ronaldo has heard the eulogies for his career. On the eve of Portugal’s World Cup round-of-16 meeting with Spain, the 41-year-old forward made clear he intends to keep needling the people writing them, while confirming this will be his last time on soccer’s biggest stage. Facing reporters ahead of Monday’s knockout tie…
England’s exam regulator Ofqual says it is “closely monitoring” the marking of an A-level maths paper which students and parents say felt “unfair”. More than 20,000 people have signed a petition calling for the paper to be reviewed, claiming it was significantly more challenging than in previous years. The founder of the petition said Wednesday’s…
Domestic animals’ cuteness and humans’ relatively flat faces may be the work of a gene that controls some important developmental cells, a study of lab-grown human cells suggests. Some scientists are touting the finding as the first real genetic evidence for two theories about domestication. One of those ideas is that humans domesticated themselves over many generations,…
apan’s AI robots plan just went from a talking point to a formal national strategy. This week, the government confirmed the numbers everyone’s been quoting: 10 million AI-powered robots deployed across 18 industries by 2040, backed by public funding of up to one trillion yen, or roughly US$6.1 billion, over five years. The headline figure…