This edition of Off the Charts was sent on January 21st 2025.

And the book goes into the scientific graft behind early surveying: including lugging very large, heavy instruments up ...

Vladimir Putin agreed “in principle” to enter American-brokered peace negotiations next month, after he met Steve Witkoff, ...

Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that restrictions on Ukraine’s military use of SpaceX’s Starlink internet system were part of a ...

Israeli settlers attacked a convoy carrying Belgian, French and Polish diplomats in the West Bank. Just a day earlier ...

The city has seen months of protests as opposition to a development involving Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, has ...

Sixty years ago two Frenchmen and an American wanted to do for pelting down pistes what the wildly popular Tour de France had ...

Elon Musk said that his rocketry and electric-vehicle firms, SpaceX and Tesla, were exploring a merger, and that a tie-up was ...

Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine was now receiving American intelligence about Russian strikes. America has denied ever ...

Several cities across France, including parts of Paris, enforced overnight curfews after violent demonstrations took place on ...

Brent crude briefly hit $111 a barrel, a price it has not reached since May. The global benchmark has been driven up by ...

Pity the cyber-defenders working overnight. On Wednesday morning, vulnerabilities were exposed in PHP, a venerable ...