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Sunday 24/December/2017 20:10 PM

World electronic waste in 2016

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

Sunday 24/December/2017 15:18 PM

Racing the machine

Dispelling anxiety about robots has become a major preoccupation of business apologetics. The commonsense – and far from foolish – view is that the more...

Sunday 24/December/2017 15:14 PM

Preventing the next African famine

After falling for more than a decade, the number of hungry people in the world is rising once again. This year was marked by the worst global food crisis...

Sunday 24/December/2017 15:13 PM

A climate cure worse than the disease

Two years after the Paris climate agreement was signed, the French capital this month again attracted the world’s good and great, who gathered for...

Saturday 23/December/2017 15:21 PM

America’s unfair democracy

Doug Jones' remarkable victory in the Alabama Senate special election on December 12 is the strongest sign yet that Republicans will lose seats in...

Saturday 23/December/2017 14:48 PM

The world economy in 2018

All major macroeconomic indicators – growth, unemployment, and inflation – suggest that 2017 will be the American economy’s best year in a decade. And...

Saturday 23/December/2017 14:47 PM

Fake Brexit or no Brexit

Since last year’s Brexit referendum, the United Kingdom has been likened to a suicide who jumps off a 100-storey building and, as he falls past the 50th...