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The exile government that was built by the Dalai Lama to preserve Tibetans’ cultural identity will be put to the test by his eventual succession.
Chandragupta Maurya, India's first emperor, overthrew the Nanda dynasty. He unified the subcontinent and established the ...
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Population Fund warned on Tuesday of a crisis of "reproductive agency" amid declining birth rates in many parts of the world. Millions of people are unable to have ...
It was a Thai court decision last year that swept Paetongtarn Shinawatra into the prime minister's office and now, once again, the fate of the 38-year-old novice politician lies in the hands of the ...
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction Henry Gee. St. Martin’s, $29 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-32558-7 ...
Making of an empire As a bold young man, Chandragupta Maurya, the future king of the Mauryan Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the Great, who had crossed the Indus River ...
Veteran D.C. political journalist Alex Thompson joined Jim Lokay on "The Final 5" to discuss his new book "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run ...
Tunde Onakoya, Founder of Chess in Slums Africa, recently found himself at the centre of a social media firestorm following a meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa. Onakoya, 30, ...
During the pandemic, the adjusted cardiorespiratory fitness was 0.55 and 0.86 mL/kg/min lower in girls and boys, respectively. HealthDay News — During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, there ...
Book Review: A new biography goes long and deep on the rise and fall of rock band Talking Heads “Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock” starts with ...