Doomsday

The worlds population reached 8 billion Tuesday, according to estimates from the United Nations, even as the international body said that a surge in births in lower income countries is likely to create risks.

For 60 years, the Cuban missile crisis has loomed both as a frightening lesson on how close the world came to nuclear doomsday -- and how skillful leadership averted it.

US President Joe Biden may have pared down his recent warning about a "nuclear Armageddon" but it has brought the "doomsday clock" clock back in sharp focus.

Doomsday could start with a football -- the so-called "nuclear football" as the attache case carried wherever the US president goes is popularly known.

The scary new study has alerted us about the rapid disintegration of one of the biggest glaciers in the world.

The "Doomsday Clock," representing the judgment of leading science and security experts about perils to human existence, remains at 100 seconds to midnight this year, with advances like Covid-19 vaccines.

In less than 24 hours the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will update the Doomsday Clock. The clock currently at 100 seconds from midnight -- the metaphorical time when the human race could destroy the world with technologies of its own making.

A UN conference critical to averting the most disastrous effects of climate change kicked off on Monday, its task made even more daunting by the failure of major industrial nations to agree ambitious new commitments.

Even for a city as used to violent death as Kabul, the scenes after twin blasts tore through crowds thronging outside the airport in

Raghuram Rajan said that central banks should now focus on the financial stability of green investments, and other ''threats'' such as crypto currencies and cyber security.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today launched a scathing attack on critics - particularly the Congress - accusing the Narendra Modi government of crony capitalism, ignoring the poor and mishandling of the farmers' protest

The Kremlin on Wednesday sounded the alarm over the theft of sensitive equipment from a secretive "doomsday plane" designed for the country's top command in event of a nuclear attack.

The Doomsday Clock on Thursday ticked down to 100 seconds to midnight, symbolizing the greatest level of peril to humanity since its creation in 1947 as the threat posed by climate change and a growing nuclear race loomed large.

The Navy's "doomsday" plane wasn't supposed to be on the ground in Maryland for long. Instead, the E-6B Mercury - a flying communications and command post designed to play a critical role during a nuclear war - should have briefly touched down before taking off again.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday compared the Congress to the ill-fated ocean liner Titanic, saying that the day is not far when it will be lost to the world forever. "The condition of the Congress is just like the Titanic: it sinks a little deeper with each passing day.

The worlds population reached 8 billion Tuesday, according to estimates from the United Nations, even as the international body said that a surge in births in lower income countries is likely to create risks.

For 60 years, the Cuban missile crisis has loomed both as a frightening lesson on how close the world came to nuclear doomsday -- and how skillful leadership averted it.

US President Joe Biden may have pared down his recent warning about a "nuclear Armageddon" but it has brought the "doomsday clock" clock back in sharp focus.

Doomsday could start with a football -- the so-called "nuclear football" as the attache case carried wherever the US president goes is popularly known.

The scary new study has alerted us about the rapid disintegration of one of the biggest glaciers in the world.

The "Doomsday Clock," representing the judgment of leading science and security experts about perils to human existence, remains at 100 seconds to midnight this year, with advances like Covid-19 vaccines.

In less than 24 hours the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will update the Doomsday Clock. The clock currently at 100 seconds from midnight -- the metaphorical time when the human race could destroy the world with technologies of its own making.

A UN conference critical to averting the most disastrous effects of climate change kicked off on Monday, its task made even more daunting by the failure of major industrial nations to agree ambitious new commitments.

Even for a city as used to violent death as Kabul, the scenes after twin blasts tore through crowds thronging outside the airport in

Raghuram Rajan said that central banks should now focus on the financial stability of green investments, and other ''threats'' such as crypto currencies and cyber security.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today launched a scathing attack on critics - particularly the Congress - accusing the Narendra Modi government of crony capitalism, ignoring the poor and mishandling of the farmers' protest

The Kremlin on Wednesday sounded the alarm over the theft of sensitive equipment from a secretive "doomsday plane" designed for the country's top command in event of a nuclear attack.

The Doomsday Clock on Thursday ticked down to 100 seconds to midnight, symbolizing the greatest level of peril to humanity since its creation in 1947 as the threat posed by climate change and a growing nuclear race loomed large.

The Navy's "doomsday" plane wasn't supposed to be on the ground in Maryland for long. Instead, the E-6B Mercury - a flying communications and command post designed to play a critical role during a nuclear war - should have briefly touched down before taking off again.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday compared the Congress to the ill-fated ocean liner Titanic, saying that the day is not far when it will be lost to the world forever. "The condition of the Congress is just like the Titanic: it sinks a little deeper with each passing day.