All hail the new Bugatti Chiron

We will dramatically raise the bar in terms of top speed, we will dramatically increase the power… We didn’t need a hybrid. There are days, and they don’t come often, when the automotive world shifts on its axis. This, ladies and gentleman, is one of them because the Veyron’s reign as the world fastest production car is at an end, and the usurper comes from within.
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So when do we get that ‘full and open’ debate on the TPP?

The Liberals are punting a real discussion on the Trans-Pacific Partnership as far into the future as possible
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Otto Warmbier, Detained U.S. Student, Apologizes in North Korea

An American student detained in North Korea appeared in a government-arranged news conference in Pyongyang, the capital, on Monday, apologizing for what the country called an antistate crime: trying to steal a political banner. The student, Otto F. Warmbier, an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, was detained in North Korea in January while visiting the country on a tourist visa. While announcing his arrest, the state...
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Southern Hemisphere: Solar and lunar eclipses for March

This month features a partial solar eclipse, a hint of a lunar eclipse, Jupiter the jewel of planets, and Mars is in the grip of the scorpion.
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Maps of the Moon Mountains Once Thought to Be the Source of the Nile

The search for the source of the Nile captivated civilizations for centuries. For a long stretch of time from ancient Greece right up into the 19th century, the answer to that mysterious question was the Mountains of the Moon. This range of peaks wound up on a number of maps despite being entirely fictional.
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MAP shows what continent REALLY thinks of EU

EUROPE is turning against Brussels with anti-EU feeling spreading through the Continent - as our exclusive map today reveals.
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Could the Internet Do What the Euro Couldn’t?

A plan to connect the Continent online could help its moribund economy.
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Lagos’s blackout nightmare: the suburb that’s been in darkness for five years

For Lagosians, electricity shortages can mean cooking by torchlight, or companies spending a shocking 70% of the budget on diesel ... and some neighbourhoods have spent half a decade with no power at all. By Eromo Egbejule.
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Hope Cemetery Barre, Vermont

Large cemetery known as the museum of granite sculpture
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Hillary Clinton, ‘Smart Power’ and a Dictator’s Fall

The president was wary about intervening, but Mrs. Clinton was persuasive. In the end, the ouster of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi left Libya a failed state and a haven for terrorists. An in-depth look at the perils of intervention. *Open in privacy/incognito mode*
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U.S. Duty-Free Limit for Online Shopping Puts Canada in the Shade

Americans are now allowed to spend more than 40 times as much as their northern neighbours without paying duty on products shipped from abroad as a result of a law signed by President Barack Obama last week.
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Winter Beauty

A winter scene adjacent a frozen lake on a foggy morning. Pic by Ian McGregor
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'Welcome to My Cave.' Abandoned Packard Factory's Lone Resident Braces for New Neighbours

A developer keen to lift Detroit aims to transform one of Motown's legendary automotive plants from an abandoned factory to a mixed-use urban space. But amid the renewal, what's to become of the man who has lived there alone for the past nine years?
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This travel site finds you an authentic home-cooked meal abroad

Wouldn’t it be cool to travel the world like a TV chef like Anthony Bourdain? Now, thanks to the sharing economy, and sites like Traveling Spoon, you, too, can travel like an irreverent chef.
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Seikei University library may be the world’s coolest with its “floating” meeting rooms

Located in Tokyo’s Kichijoji-Kitamachi neighborhood, Seikei University's new library includes glass-domed rooms within a five-story atrium.
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Why You Can't Trust GPS in China

When you touch down within China's borders, your trusty smartphone GPS suddenly goes a little haywire. Here's why.
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China has created an artificial star 8,600 times hotter than the sun

The reaction, which is caused by nuclear fusion, has the potential to revolutionize how we use energy.
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This racist backlash against refugees is the real crisis in Europe

The European coalition of the inhumane – contriving to trap refugees in Greece – cannot go on. A humanitarian evacuation plan is urgently needed. By Apostolis Fotiadis.
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How Turkey supports the jihadists

Russia questioned the future of Turkey when it delivered to the Security Council an intelligence report concerning Turkey’s activities in support of jihadists. The document includes about ten revelations which implicate the activities of the [Turkish intelligence agency] MIT... By Thierry Meyssan,
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Los Ambulantes

The first exhibition in New York since 1981 of Ann Parker's important series, Los Ambulantes, capturing the itinerant photographers of Guatemala, will open March 4 at Deborah Bell Photographs. Ann’s goal was to document a folk tradition—these photographers with their customers, something that is now lost to changing times.
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Keeping Up With The Joneses' Latest Medical Procedure

Having reached the average life expectancy for an American male, Dr. Schumann's father is acutely interested in his buddies' illnesses and treatments. Call it "medical me-tooism."
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When Britannia ruled the digital waves

Tom Lean’s "Electronic Dreams" reminds us how Britain once led the field in computer science, producing systems more revolutionary than the Apple Mac. By Steven Poole.
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A famous island nobody knows

“These islands touched my life without my knowing: the perfumes that waft by at parties, the vanilla that flavours my ice cream and the cloves that spice up my Christmas cookies.”
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Undisturbed Places - A Timelapse Film

There are places in the world where stars are the only source of light. Their singularity is breathtaking, inclines to reflection and becomes the root of inspiration. Places like that are usually unspoiled, natural and intact. These are the places where humans live in symbiosis with nature.
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Inside the Brutal San Quentin Prison Marathon

One day a year, the men locked up in California's oldest prison get a shot at glory. Thieves, killers, and dope dealers lace up their shoes and race around the yard for the longest and hardest run of their lives. It's The San Quentin Marathon, and it feels something like freedom. By Jesse Katz.
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Sunrise at Mount Rinjani, Indonesia

Photographed by Abdul Azis.
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A Bloody Tale of How Mexico Went Catholic

The ancient rites of the Aztecs, the brutality of the Inquisition, and the savagery of anti-clericalism all combined to give the Mexican church a very special character. By Alan Riding.
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Identification of animals and plants is an essential skill set

I have recently been made abundantly aware of the lack of field skills among biology students, even those who major in ecology. By field skills we mean the ability to identify plants and animals, to recognise invasive species and to observe the impact of processes such as fire on the landscape.
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Stuck in blood-red soil

Indigenous people and ranchers are dying in southwestern Brazil in a century-old land war sparked by bad political decisions and a failed legislation. Ranchers have sworn to keep their land, even resorting to hiring private security, but native Indians want what they claim is their land, no matter how long it takes. By Carla Ruas.
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WTO swats down India’s massive solar initiative

The U.S. filed a complaint against India for requiring use of domestically produced panels, and the WTO took America’s side.
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Arthur Kill Ship Graveyard - abandoned - Drone View - Staten Island, NY

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Claw machine master grabs over 3,000 dolls in six months, arcade owners beg him to stop

In a light-hearted story of utilizing an otherwise completely useless skill to achieve great things, a man from Xiamen has drawn some well-earned admiration for being a true master at claw machines. Chen Zhitong is Jianghu shopping mall's famous "claw machine god." He has one room dedicated to toys that he has nabbed from the arcade and it doesn't look like he's planning on stopping any time soon. "Of course I won't stop, I've already lost count," he says.
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The Place Where the Poor Once Thrived

San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley, used to be the best place in the country for kids to experience a Horatio Alger, rags-to-riches life. Is it still? By Alana Semuels.
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China is banning 'bizarre architecture' — here are 14 of the strangest examples

The Chinese government just banned "odd-shaped buildings."
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The Dog Thief Killings

No one knows what time Nguyen Dinh Phong left his low concrete home in Nghe An Province, in the heart of Revolutionary Vietnam. The skinny 27-year-old heroin addict had already stolen everything he could from the people he left sleeping at home—his wife, his kids, his aged parents.
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Felipe Pantone UB

Felipe Pantone is a contemporary, kinetic graffiti artist living in Valencia, Spain.
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Tea and technology: Memories of great tea times

There was one special haven of tea, perhaps even more central to everyday English life than Starbucks has been in the US. This was J. Lyons, whose tea houses from the 1890s through to the early 1980s offered the best and most affordable quality, service and ambience. In addition, a fact that is almost unknown to Silicon Valley, Lyons invented the business computer, in 1951. Peter Keen retells the story of the Lyons tea house and more little known facts about it.
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40,000 Canisters of Aerial Film from World War II Land Online

Aerial photography dates to the early years of the 20th century, when pioneers like George R. Lawrence launched cameras into the skies with kites.
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Ocean acidification is already harming the Great Barrier Reef's growth

By artificially going 'back in time' to more alkaline ocean conditions, researchers have shown the damage that ocean acidification is already doing to the Great Barrier Reef.
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Vintage Cover Illustrations of Shukan Shincho by Rokuro Taniuchi

Sixty years ago this month Shukan Shincho began publishing their weekly magazine. The inaugural issue’s cover illustration featured a young girl in kimono walking on a breezy shoreline, fighting to keep her paper umbrella from blowing away. Behind her a train with homes as cars puffed along the water with billowing clouds of seashells rising from the smokestack. It was illustrated by artist Rokuro Taniuchi who, for the next 25 years, illustrated numerous covers for the magazine.
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Justice Scalia spent his last hours with members of this secretive society of elite hunters

The group is called the International Order of St. Hubertus, an exclusive all-male group dating back to the 1600s. By Amy Brittain and Sari Horwitz.
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Art That Appeals to People's “Greed”

Maywa Denki’s “specialty” isn’t easy to define, but the Japanese art group has a long track record of making uncanny, whimsical products that dwell in a borderland between musical instruments and toys. From “Otamatone,” a note-shaped electronic musical instrument, to “Mr. Knocky,” a wire-operated percussion toy, the group has created and marketed a seemingly endless roster of products that look like nothing any other company would (or could) try to make.
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The Fencing Master

David Treuer on learning to fence with Maître Michel Sebastiani and learning to write with Toni Morrison.
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No Wool, No Vikings

The fleece that launched 1,000 ships.
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Sanctions against North Korea: a hammer with no nails

North Korea’s recent nuclear and long-range rocket tests appear to have created a policy tipping point. Opinion in the United States, South Korea and Japan has shifted away from a policy of ‘strategic patience’ towards one that employs additional sanctions to compel North Korea to reverse its nuclear weapons and missile programs. But we shouldn’t expect too much in terms of concrete results.
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What happened to Turkey's foreign policy?

Turkey has made some major mistakes with its one-dimensional foreign policy, say former ambassadors who served under the Justice and Development Party.
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Astronomers trace source of a massive energy explosion to a distant galaxy

A rare burst of energy is tracked to a galaxy far, far away by scientists.
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L.A. County spends more than $233,000 a year to hold each youth in juvenile lockup

Los Angeles County's juvenile detention system was designed in an era when youth crime was on the rise. The number of juvenile arrests has fallen dramatically in recent years. Some say the system has not kept up with this shift, and now it's costing taxpayers money. A county audit found that the average cost of incarcerating a youth has soared to $233,600 a year, significantly higher than other comparable jurisdictions.
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China's Cultural Revolution must be confronted

The enemies of the state existed nowhere but in the muddled head of the ageing "Great Helmsman".
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The Migration Machine

Reuters investigates Europe’s migration crisis: Millions of people, billions of dollars – and the struggle to cope.
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