A quick reminder of the result of September’s election shows why Angela Merkel is in a bind. Photograph: Bloomberg Having only won 246 out of the 706 seats in the Bundestag, the CDU/CSU needs coalition partners to form a stable government. However, the maths is tricky, as the SPD isn’t willing to ... Read More »
At least 67 people were killed when a platform collapsed at a construction site in China’s Jiangxi province. The accident took place at a power plant in Fengcheng where a cooling tower was under construction. One person is still missing, state media say. Jiangxi province’s fire services said 32 fire ... Read More »
The developed world may be facing another Malthusian moment. The first came at the end of the 18th century, when Thomas Malthus predicted dire consequences for humanity if population trends continued on their trajectory. But along came something no one predicted: technology that helped humans use resources more efficiently and ... Read More »
Rescue workers in India found 18 bodies on Friday after a bridge collapsed over a flooded river earlier in the week, a report said. According to the report, 23 people are feared dead after two buses and a car plunged into the Savitri River when an aging bridge on a ... Read More »
The collapse of a bridge in the western Indian state of Maharashtra this week that left 14 people dead and 18 others missing wasn’t the first road tragedy to hit the area. In 2013, a bus veered off a 80 year-old bridge on the Jagbudi river, which flows parallel to ... Read More »
A vacant and blighted house next to a well-kept occupied house in a once thriving east-side neighborhood in Detroit seen in 2013. The real-estate market is one of the most important parts of the American economy.And there’s a lot of disagreement about where it’s going next. Housing is one of ... Read More »
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today visited the spot of the flyover collapse in Kokata in which 26 people were killed and said he had come to extend support to the victims and did not want to politicise the issue. Later Mr. Gandhi met the injured people in the Calcutta ... Read More »
