taipei, taiwan— Taiwanese officials said Saturday that the suspect who killed three people and wounded 11 others in knife and smoke-grenade attacks in the island’s capital had planned attacks and fires at other locations earlier in the day. The suspect, identified as Chang Wen, a 27-year-old man, fell from a department store building in Taipei…
It was in the year 1914 that Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan arrived in Cambridge with a notebook filled with 17 extraordinary infinite series for 1/π. They were not only efficient but also gave accurate digits of the world’s most famous irrational number. For a century, the formulas were considered the best in number theory, but…
The Justice Department on Friday released thousands of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. But vast numbers of documents remain unreleased. Congress had given the DOJ a December 19 deadline to release all records it has. Over the past month, the DOJ and both Democratic and Republican lawmakers gradually…
The United States is pressing for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Sudan as fighting in the vast strategic Kordofan region intensifies, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio warning that the continued violence is “appalling” and that all involved will face lasting condemnation. Speaking at a year-end news conference on Friday, Rubio said the fighting in…
A spokesman for António Guterres called for the immediate release of the UN staff, as 69 people are now detained in the country. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the detention of 10 more UN staff by the Houthis in Yemen. Guterres’ spokesman Stephane Dujarric confirmed on Friday that the previous day’s arrests brought the…
Reporters ask questions of world leaders all the time. It’s not a big deal. Correct? But how is it to ask questions of Vladimir Putin – the president who ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the leader whose country was this week accused of “exporting chaos” by the head of MI6? Imagine posing that question…
This photo, taken on August 16, 2014, shows the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts building in Washington, DC. – AFP Washington’s iconic John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts will be renamed the “Trump-Kennedy Center” after President Donald Trump, the White House announced Thursday. The extraordinary naming of a major cultural venue…
