Just another bad day in the office for China's lonely stock traders
Jan 05, 2016 23:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Assume youre a trader and your job involves buying and selling on the Shanghai/ Shenzhen stock exchanges. Youve just returned to work from your 1 January New Year break. Youre feeling bearish for a number of...
Plastics of the future may be made from sulfur, not oil, putting waste to good use
Jan 05, 2016 15:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
What has chemistry ever done for me, you might ask? Just as Dustin Hoffman was told by one of his would-be mentors in The Graduate, one answer is plastics one of the greatest chemical innovations of the 20th...
New ways your smartwatch (and phone) may be spying on you. How worried should you be?
Jan 05, 2016 13:47 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
A computer science Masters student Tony Beltramelli at the IT University of Copenhagen has demonstrated that software running on a smartwatch could be used to record a users passwords and PINs. He managed this by using the...
Saudi Arabia is paying a heavy price for Iran's global rehabilitation
Jan 05, 2016 12:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views
As 2015 drew to a close, you could have been forgiven for cautious optimism as far as Saudi-Iranian relations were concerned. With the years-in-the-making nuclear deal finally sealed, Iran had finally been brought in from...
As El Niño rains arrive, Los Angeles shunts precious water to sea
Jan 05, 2016 11:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
If ever a city was built to be resilient to heavy rains, it is Los Angeles. And yet, El Niño is about to test just how resilient the city is in the short term to flooding, and even more importantly, how resilient it...
More Mexicans are leaving the US than coming
Jan 05, 2016 11:36 am UTC| Insights & Views
During the most recent Republican debate, Donald Trump declared people are pouring across the southern border. Trump is right that the United States has been a major immigrant destination since the 1960s, but if he is...
China's stock market is in for a turbulent 2016
Jan 05, 2016 11:02 am UTC| Insights & Views
The Shanghai stock market has had a rough start to the New Year. Bourses are down and trading was halted on its opening day after the market plunged, triggering the new circuit-breaker mechanism designed to limit...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
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