Russia is considering an Iranian proposal for ending the conflict between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces in the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh after three ceasefires failed to halt ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Beyond Gravity has secured a contract to deliver robotic arm thruster pointing mechanisms for the small satellites Swissto12 is building for geostationary orbit. The multi-axis Appmax 3 ...

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At the BBC Proms in September, the Albert Hall will stage a concert performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s controversial 1934 opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Based on Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 ...

The National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW) has destroyed 1,316 illicit arms as part of the federal government’s efforts to control the proliferation of illegal ...

Adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) often get more attention when rates climb, but don’t fool yourself: their actual footprint in the U.S. housing market remains modest. “That tweet set off a firestorm,” ...

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In the fall of 1925, agronomist Trofim Lysenko arrived on the dusty plains of what is now Azerbaijan, hoping to keep cows from starving to death over the winter. The young scientist, who learned to ...

In 1991, Donald Trump filed for bankruptcy for the first time. He is said to have posed as his own publicist in a phone interview. He judged a “Look of the Year” modeling event, whose contestants ...

A weird, wistful creature from a Soviet-era children’s cartoon. A weird, wistful creature from a Soviet-era children’s cartoon. During a recent discussion of Labubus on Slack (yes, this is the kind of ...