We are not alone. There are billions of galaxies, according to Carl Sagan.
Thanks to Albert Einstein who broadened the Law of Mechanics initiated by Galileo and Isaac Newton with his Theory of Relativity.
Truly, scentific achievement in the 20th century has become the major yardstick with which to measure a nation's cultural advancement.
Lines were crossed. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to visit Russia next Wednesday, but that’s problematic after President Donald Trump’s decision Thursday to attack Kremlin ally Syria with 59 cruise missiles.
“The U.S. has spoken enough about North Korea.” That was the gist of a peculiar three-sentence statement from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson following news that North Korea had once again fired a medium-range ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan.
A truck has driven into a crowd of people and through a luxury department store window on Drottninggatan (Queen Street), Stockholm, one of the city’s main pedestrian areas. So far, four people have been reported dead with 15 injured, nine of them seriously.
"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry."
--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- While facing the media after his boss had been kicked out by President Duterte as secretary of the Department Interior and Local Government (DILG), Undersecretary Jesus Hinlo shed tears.
"Inalisan kami ng bodyguards (our bodyguards had been recalled)," Hinlo, who speaks fluent Hiligaynon (dialect of the "Ilonggos") mourned, his voice shaking.
In China, nobody can see his tweets. Expectations are high on both sides of the Pacific for President Donald Trump’s first in-person meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, to be held today and tomorrow at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
It’s all about speed — and market value. Tesla’s stock soared yesterday, pushing the company’s value to $48.7 billion, while Ford, established a century earlier, stalled at $45.6 billion.
