France’s national railroad company, SNCF, hoped to build a high-speed train in California in the early 2000s. But the company left the Golden State in 2011, citing its dysfunctional politics, reported the New York Times. Instead, the French rail experts went to Morocco to work...
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Australia is reversing its decision to recognize West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, going back on a policy implemented by the previous administration of former conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison, the Hill reported Tuesday. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong announced Monday that the government has “reaffirmed Australia’s...
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Ethiopian forces captured three towns in Tigray this week, marking an escalation in the nearly two-year-old civil conflict that has caused a humanitarian disaster in the northern region of the country, the BBC reported Tuesday. The government said the captured towns include the strategic city of...
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ordered an investigation into the Unification Church this week amid a recent scandal over his ruling party’s links to the controversial religious group, the Guardian reported. The government’s probe followed a recent investigation which found that half of all lawmakers from...
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Spider silk is considered one of the strongest materials in nature – five times tougher than steel. Despite the abundance of spiders in the world, though, it is not easy to collect large amounts of this silk for mass production. But scientists in China recently found that...
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