India as a punching bag

You have to time it right to get the full impact. I happened to, purely by chance: for I showed up at 8 am and had to wait in the glass-encased security building for about half an hour before my......

'God has been vulgarised and overused'

Vartan Gregorian sits in his spacious office at the Carnegie Corporation of New York where as its president he oversees a great amount of money given out for philanthropic causes. It has not always......

A look into Intel's future

Since the creation of Moore's Law in 1965, people have been predicting its death. Even Gordon Moore, the law's creator, had to revise it a couple of times to make it work. The new wrinkle is that......

Shanghai rising!

Benjamin Wood swings his bulky frame over the saddle, straps on his helmet, and settles onto a vintage motorcycle with sidecar. The American architect kicks the engine into life with a single......

Best product designs: Asia rocks

For companies worldwide, design has become strategic, the very core of their efforts to differentiate what they make and do. But is design itself becoming a commodity? Consider this. What was once......

In Messi's hometown, hope builds ahead of World Cup final

IMAGE: Pedestrians walk past a mural depicting Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi near the home where he was born, in Rosario, Argentina. Photograph: Agustin Marcarian/Reuters In Rosario, the......