COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — China has agreed to provide a loan of $989 million to Sri Lanka to build an expressway that will connect the island nation’s tea-growing central region to a China-run seaport on ...

The idea of a single precious object being passed from one person to another on a quixotic journey follows a plot device as old as fairy tales. In "A String of Pearls," currently at Artists Repertory ...

Physicists often turn to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability to explain why fluid structures form in plasmas, but that may not be the full story when it comes to the ring of hydrogen clumps around ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The indicators of the real state of the Chinese economy aren’t only found in the debt, growth, and production output statistics released by the Chinese government. Indeed, a defining indicator of ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured yet another beautiful sight. While observing a series of interacting galaxies known as Galaxy AM 1045-325, Hubble spotted what looked like a celestial ...

In a November 8 column, U.S. Naval War College Professor James R. Holmes (aka the Naval Diplomat) criticized a new National Defense University (NDU) report on Chinese overseas basing that I and a team ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- In a provocative new study, scientists challenge a fundamental tenet in neuroscience about the shape of axons -- the long, thin filaments radiating from nerve cells that transmit ...

In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.

Along Omaha’s entrance on Abbott Drive, the city’s effort to spruce up the area stands out. Red decorative towers hail the entrance as the city skyline reaches over treetops, shrubbery and flowers ...

ELMIRA — Thanks to Jeanne and Chris Polak, String of Pearls is one of Elmira’s gems. The shop is chock-full of handcrafted and painted furniture and out of the ordinary gifts. Jeanne recalled her ...

People on opposite sides of the debate about guns apparently can’t agree on anything these days — not even the meaning of a string of pearls. On Tuesday, liberal activists expressed outrage at a group ...