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Barack Obama

What’s Our China Endgame?

Finally, the endgame can no longer be what presidents from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama hoped it would: Beijings peaceful rise as an economic power and a responsible stakeholder in international affairs. Since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, China has beh…

bubmagMay 16, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Nike is launching a guide to sustainability for brands–get it here

“If you’re choosing to design something, you have the power to influence or plan where it might go in its life,” says Matthew Needham, who is about to get his masters in fashion from the London design college Central Saint Martins. “So you have to make consci…

bubmagMay 16, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Nike is launching a guide to sustainability for brands–get it here

“If you’re choosing to design something, you have the power to influence or plan where it might go in its life,” says Matthew Needham, who is about to get his masters in fashion from the London design college Central Saint Martins. “So you have to make consci…

bubmagMay 16, 2019

Monsanto

European criminal investigators closing in on Monsanto’s “black ops” unit that targeted journalists, regulators and lawmakers

European criminal investigators closing in on Monsanto's "black ops" unit that targeted journalists, regulators and lawmakers

bubmagMay 16, 2019

Super Komachi

Simon Calder at 25: The ultimate travel timeline, from 1994-2019

Over the last 25 years at The Independent, it's been my privilege to cover some of the most pivotal events, break the biggest new stories and interview the most inspirational people in travel. Here are the moments that best define my last quarter of a centur…

bubmagMay 16, 2019

New York City

New York Today: Fur Helped Build the City. Now Its Sale May Be Banned.

Its official: Tourism in New York City is off the hook. Last year, the city had a record high of more than 65 million visitors, the ninth consecutive annual increase. Expect more than 67 million in 2019, Mr. Heywood said. Roughly 80 percent of the tourists …

bubmagMay 16, 2019

Bees

As bumblebee diets narrow, ours could too

There has been a lot of buzz about honeybees’ failing health because they pollinate our produce. Less well known is how critical bumblebees are for some of our favorite foods. And their numbers are also rapidly declining. A new study from the University of C…

bubmagMay 16, 2019

Blockchain

Stellar’s ‘decentralized’ blockchain crashed for 2 hours and nobody realized

Stellars blockchain suffered a cascading failure that halted transactions for roughly two hours on May 15. Breaking: yesterday the Stellar network went down for about 2 hours only those who run validators noticed it. no new transactions were added for ~2 ho…

bubmagMay 16, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey’s Erdogan, Iraq’s Abdul Mahdi discuss military cooperation

Ankara and Baghdad have discussed a possible deal to increase military and security cooperation between the neighboring countries, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Erdogan spoke to reporters in Ankara after meetings with visiting Iraqi Prime …

bubmagMay 16, 2019

Super Komachi

Japan tests next-generation Shinkansen bullet train

A prototype of Japan's next-generation Shinkansen bullet train, set to be the fastest train on wheels when it enters service, reached speeds of 320 kilometres (198 miles) per hour on a test run Thursday. The train, code-named ALFA-X, will eventually hit 360 …

bubmagMay 16, 2019

What’s Our China Endgame?

Nike is launching a guide to sustainability for brands–get it here

Nike is launching a guide to sustainability for brands–get it here

European criminal investigators closing in on Monsanto’s “black ops” unit that targeted journalists, regulators and lawmakers

Simon Calder at 25: The ultimate travel timeline, from 1994-2019

New York Today: Fur Helped Build the City. Now Its Sale May Be Banned.

As bumblebee diets narrow, ours could too

Stellar’s ‘decentralized’ blockchain crashed for 2 hours and nobody realized

Turkey’s Erdogan, Iraq’s Abdul Mahdi discuss military cooperation

Japan tests next-generation Shinkansen bullet train

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