BY now, it's apparent to all — or at least to anyone willing to look — what this is. Gone are the fig leaves and legal nuances and faux optimism. It is what it is, it isn't very pretty and it's probably going to get a whole lot…

Annie Eagle / Alamy Stock Photo In an infinite lottery can you create a lottery ticket that always wins? This is the idea behind a 50-year-old maths problem that has now been solved. In a standard lottery, you have a ticket with a handful of…

SRINAGAR, India: Kashmir has seen an average of nearly 20 protests per day against Indian rule over the last six weeks despite a security lockdown to quell unrest, a senior government source said. Tensions remain high in the disputed Himalayan…

It was bound to happen. The timing couldn't have been better from Modi's perspective. Having promised to do so in his election manifesto, one can only sigh in despair at our prime minister's naivety to have expected otherwise. Know thy enemy, and…

For 250 years, scientists have categorized the electric eel as a singular species, completely alone in its genus. That all changed this week.