For years, warnings that artificial intelligence could eventually become a threat to humanity lived largely at the edge of the technology debate. They were debated by AI researchers, philosophers and ...
Gas markets are entering a more uncomfortable phase just as households and businesses prepare for winter. Prices have already moved sharply higher, but analysts warn that the next stage could be more ...
For a country that has spent more than a century defining itself in relation to its enormous southern neighbor, the sight of Canada’s prime minister rising to applause inside the European Parlia...
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday for the first time in more than three years, ending a long stretch of steady borrowing costs and signaling that policymakers are no longer willin...
The uneasy quiet that had settled over the Arabian Peninsula for nearly four years has shattered. Saudi warplanes are once again striking targets inside Yemen, and Houthi missiles and drones are again...
For the first time since devolution began nearly three decades ago, the governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all led by parties whose founding purpose is to end their nations’...
Hundreds of anti-immigration demonstrators and anti-racism campaigners confronted one another in Portsmouth on Saturday, turning the centre of the south-coast city into a tightly controlled arena for ...
Public debate in Seoul has intensified as officials weigh the risks and limits of a possible overseas mission. South Korea is slowing a decision that Washington wants made quickly, insisting that any ...
Illustrative image of maritime rescue efforts in rough seas. A routine overnight crossing between two of Indonesia’s busiest island cities became a desperate race against time after the passenger vess...
Under the warm lights of a small Tokyo theater, the first thing the audience notices is softness: tiers of lace, satin bows, bonnet ribbons and bell-shaped skirts in pink, white and black. Then the sc...
Workers and patrons confront uncertainty outside the Kennedy Center as trustees weigh an immediate shutdown. The Kennedy Center may be days from going dark, not because a season has ended, but because...
Every jump on the gas-station sign invites a simple culprit, and Ukraine has become an easy one. The war has unsettled energy markets, but saying Ukraine caused expensive gasoline confuses the victim ...