British sports car manufacturer Lotus is adding 200 new engineers to its workforce as part of an ambitious production increase plan bankrolled by Chinese owner Geely. The Telegraph reports that Lotus is looking to triple production to 5,000 cars a year and w…
RIYADH/DUBAI (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia said Washington should take what he called “reasonable responses short of war” after it had determined who was behind attacks on oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. Iran was a p…
It's been an exciting week for royal fans since Meghan Markle and Prince Harry welcomed their first child, Archie Harrison, on Monday, May 6. Not only has Archie made history by becoming the first biracial baby to be born into the royal family, but Harry a…
Wrap up warm and head outside if you're in Dunedin, Masterton or the south coast of Wellington because you might catch a glimpse of aurora lights in the night sky. *Can you see the aurora australis? Get in touch with your pics! newstips@stuff.co.nz Otherwi…
Jianan Yu/Reuters Asian stocks fell on Monday as traders followed Wall Street's example and braced themselves for a prolonged trade war. The worldwide sell-off reflects fears of slower economic growth and rising geopolitical tensions, as China plans to resp…
For the first time, right-wing leader Marine Le Pen's party Rassemblement National (RN), formerly the National Front, overtook French President Emmanuel Macron's party La République En Marche (REM) according to a recent Ipsos poll ahead of the EU election thi…
A view of the Tumo Center for Creative Technologies in Yerevan on April 30, 2019. AFP YEREVAN — In a sleek classroom in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, one of the poorest post-Soviet republics, 14-year-old Nazeli Ter-Petrosyan peers at the screen of her App…
Luckily, Ikea’s innovation lab Space10 is publishing a cookbook called Future Food Today to help. Packed with about two dozen recipes that rely on what the lab calls “future foods”–like microalgae and mealworms–the cookbook is desig…
Ten per cent of the oxygen we breathe comes from just one kind of bacteria in the ocean. Now laboratory tests have shown that these bacteria are susceptible to plastic pollution, according to a study published in Communications Biology. "We found that exposu…