Cold War

Irans supreme leader announced on Tuesday that there will be no talks with the U.S. at any level remarks apparently meant to end all speculation about a possible U.S.-Iran meeting between the two countries presidents at the U.N. later this month. Iranian sta…

Image copyrightAFPImage caption The Vektor centre has a huge collection of dangerous viruses (file pic) A major Russian research centre studying lethal viruses including Ebola and HIV says there was no biological contamination from an explosion and fire in…

Originally coined by the US Army to describe the increasingly unpredictable dynamics of the post-Cold War world, the acronym VUCA has been embraced by the business world to describe the global economy of the 21st century. Each letter stands for a unique type …

Newly released documents have revealed how the CIA used birds and other animals during the Cold War. When it came to spying on the Soviets, no stone was left unturned.Throughout the 1970s, the CIA investigated the use of various types of animals in their eff…

The Handmaids Tale came out near the end of the Cold War, and Atwood has said she was inspired by mid-20th-century works of anti-totalitarian speculative fiction like 1984 and Ray BradburysFahrenheit 451. These books depict closed, airless societies, where de…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Recently a friend asked me about Huawei and to explain why the name continues to be in the news. My answer: Its like watching a reality TV show. There is no shortage of d…

This past June, R&B singer Cautious Clay was on tour in Bergen, Norway when he received a frantic 2 a.m. phone call from his lawyer. “They were like, ‘You have to approve this sample….We need an answer in 24 hours.” The request was coming from an unlikel…

Image copyrightGetty Images Robert Frank, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th Century has died at the age of 94. Frank, who was born in Switzerland but emigrated to the United States in 1947, was best known for his work The Americans - a b…

After multiple cryptic teasers, HBO has now shared a featurette for its highly-anticipated Watchmen adaptation series which shines more light on the masked vigilantes. Coming in at just over two-minutes, the video not only includes new scenes, but reveals a…

Image copyrightGetty Images When the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) failed to prevent the September 11, 2001 attacks, many asked whether more could have been done. But the true reason why the agency was blind to the signs may be a diversity problem, write…