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  • OPINION

    Watch Apple TV's Extrapolations for the science, not the story

    Life, Published on 10/04/2023

    » Hollywood has long mined global warming to create terrifying scenarios of apocalyptic futures. Some of these aren't very realistic. Others are all preaching and no teaching. But the new Apple TV series Extrapolations takes a different, more science-steeped approach -- the episodes cascade through the future of this century, using real scientific projections and computer-generated special effects to show how global warming might play out under the most likely scenario.

  • OPINION

    Not ready for dystopia

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 14/01/2023

    » Re: "Five automation predictions for 2023" (Business, Jan 11) and "Five tech predictions for 2023 and beyond" (Business, Jan 10).

  • OPINION

    Halloween tragedy tests Seoul's unpopular leader

    News, Published on 03/11/2022

    » A nightmarish disaster whose victims were predominantly the young. A right-of-centre leader whose popularity is sliding. A political flashpoint potentially in the making once the nation absorbs the tragedy.

  • THAILAND

    Lindsey Graham is Trump's most vital friend

    News, Eli Lake, Published on 21/09/2020

    » Lindsey Graham may be the most misunderstood figure in Donald Trump's Washington. For the #Resistance, the Republican senator from South Carolina is the lickspittle who abandoned his principles for access to a dangerous populist. For the populists, Mr Graham is an interloper, worming his way into the president's inner circle and persuading him to keep fighting the endless wars Trump campaigned against.

  • WORLD

    Myanmar sees rise in tourism despite Rohingya crisis

    Bloomberg News, Published on 22/02/2018

    » Myanmar tourist arrivals rose 18% last year to 3.44 million visitors, despite international condemnation over the treatment of its Rohingya Muslim population.

  • WORLD

    Women seen as effective suicide bombers

    News, Tobin Harshaw, Published on 12/04/2016

    » On a list of history's most notorious assassins, alongside John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald and Gavrilo Princip, the name Thenmozhi Rajaratnam would probably draw mostly blank stares. But in her way, the Tamil Tiger terrorist -- who blew up herself, the Indian leader Rajiv Gandhi and 13 others in May 1991 -- has perhaps had the largest lasting influence.

  • OPINION

    Solo attacks are expected to grow

    News, Eli Lake, Published on 18/07/2016

    » After the horror at Nice, perhaps the most depressing comment came from France's prime minister. Calling for unity in the face of terror, Manuel Valls observed: "Times have changed, and we should learn to live with terrorism. We have to show solidarity and collective calm."

  • OPINION

    Netanyahu is the only clear loser of the Gaza war

    News, Published on 29/08/2014

    » Back in 2009, Israel was festooned with election campaign banners that read, "A Strong Leader for a Strong Nation." They were Benjamin Netanyahu's banners, which, even if he had them in stock today, he would not dare use.

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