Silk Road

Since China first issued currency notes during the Tang Dynasty (618 A.D. to 907 A.D.), cash has been the medium of choice for business transactions across the globe. After the fall of the Roman Empire, silver and coins were used to facilitate most transactio…

Cannabis has been cultivated as an oil-seed and fibre crop for millennia in East Asia. Little is known, however, about the early use and eventual cultivation of the plant for its psychoactive and medicinal properties. Despite being one of the most widely used…

Archaeologists have dug up evidence that people were catching a cannabis buzz way, way before Woodstock, before the Summer of Love and even before there were jazz clubs or alarmist movies warning of "Reefer Madness." Apparently, the use of cannabis as a min…

Mourners gathered at a cemetery in whats now western China around 2,500 years ago to inhale fumes of burning cannabis plants that wafted from small wooden containers. High levels of the psychoactive compound THC in those ignited plants, also known as marijuan…

(CNN)Cannabis has been cultivated as a crop for millennia, but there's been little historical or archeological evidence showing when humans began to use the plant for what it's best known for today: getting high. However, an excavation of a 2,500-year-old t…

On 5 June, the media projectors zeroed in on President Trump and the European leaders of NATO, who, for the anniversary of D-Day, auto-celebrated in Portsmouth peace, freedom and democracy in Europe, vowing to defend them at any time, wherever they may be thr…

Apple put a whole lot of love into Maps at WWDC. Top line features include much more detailed maps, improved road coverage and more detailed land cover and addresses. To create this, Apple drove 4 million miles in Apple Cars and sent planes into the air to …

Trump just dramatically increased trade tensions between the US and China after publicly demanding that President Xi hold talks with him at the G20 otherwise hell immediately impose tariffs on $300 billion worth of imports, which is nothing less than economic…

Chinese investments in Europe have reached dizzying heights in the last two decades but, while it poses an appealing opportunity for economic growth to some countries, it is seen as a direct threat by some of the continents wealthier states. Investments in th…

Despite sharing growing strategic interests with Russia and China, Ankara remains economically much more closely integrated with the West, if not even dependent