The mayor of London reached a financial agreement with the British government that will keep the citys transport system running for at least another six months. The revenue stream from Londons Tube and buses has dwindled during the pandemic. The gove...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Business 经济 In a stunning turn of events, Chinese regulators suspended the initial public offering in Shanghai of Ant Group, just days before the fintech firm was due to float its shares in a dual listing bo...
But in practice it was the Haredi he found himself placating most: avoiding gay groups, doing little to advance the role of women, and his most regrettable mistake, refusing to attend the funeral of a much-loved Reform rabbi, Hugo Gryn, and calling h...
This matters not only in the context of immediate military success. Many people worry about handing too much autonomy to weapons of warparticularly when civilian casualties are possible. International humanitarian law requires that any civilian harm...
Singapore, for instance, grew exponentially, and played a central role in the industrialisation of tin and rubber production in its maritime hinterland of Malaysia. New Orleans rose in importance with the Mississippi riverboat steamer, only to declin...
Though dogfighting practice, like parade-ground drill and military bands, is a leftover from an earlier form of warfare that still serves a residual purpose, the next phase of DARPA's ACE(AIr combat evolution) project belongs firmly in the future, fo...
Books arts 文艺板块 Globalisation 全球化 Ports in a storm 风暴中的港口 Unlocking the World. By John Darwin. 《打开世界》。作者：约翰达尔文。 In liverpool, a French observer marvelled in 1907, one feels one is in contact w...
Aerial combat 空战 Virtual mavericks 虚拟小牛 Fighter aircraft will soon get AI pilots. But they will be wingmen, not squadron leaders 战斗机很快就会有人工智能飞行员，不过他们只是僚机驾驶员，并非空军少校 Classi...
Germans are averse to self-employment, says Armando Garcia-Schmidt of the Bertelsmann Foundation. Many graduates prefer a safe civil-service career to the vicissitudes of starting a business. The booming labour market of the past decade helped skille...
Business 商业版块 German business 德国企业 Pride and prejudice 傲慢与偏见 Many guest workers become guest entrepreneurs 许多外籍劳工成为外籍企业家 To the consternation of Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci, much of the couples cove...
