LONDON: A battle over British identity and the nation's flag is just the latest issue to widen the political divide in the United Kingdom in 2025. As the Labour government continues to face growing ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s heralded an era of environmental recovery from intensive military and industrial expansion. Since then, greenhouse gas emissions and pollution have ...

This is supposed to be America’s century. Yet, the first 25 years have proved that the US seems congenitally incapable of learning from its mistakes or acting as a global leader It is tempting to ...

WHEN the Soviet polar station was founded on an ice-floe near the North Pole on May 21, 1937, it was expected that the floe would drift slowly, perhaps erratically, but on the whole towards the ...