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As President Reagan’s secretary of state, he played a critical role in the dramatic easing of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Print Continue to article content Former secretaries of State George Shultz and Madeleine Albright speak in San Francisco in 2010. | Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo George Shultz, American statesman, dies at 100 WASHINGTON — George P. Shultz, a widely respected statesman and economist through many productive years on the public stage, has died. He was 100. “Shultz was a key player, alongside President Ronald Reagan, in changing the direction of history by using the tools of diplomacy to bring ...

OUR rulers (the Westminster ones) are advising us to prepare for summer. Not a Summer of Love exactly. More a Summer of Normal, a state to which we…

Imagen Irelands Ellen Keane showing the medals she won at the Dublin 2018 World Para Swimming Allianz Championships ⒸSportsfileBy World Para Swimming Madeira, Portugal will host the European Open Championships in 100 days from now.  This years competition will be open to athletes from outside Europe making it the biggest Para swimming event to take place in 2021 before the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan in August. While you get ready for the action, World Para Swimming pre...

In this portfolio of genre-defying luxury hotels and resorts from South Africa to St. Barths, we salute passion projects, many of which have quickly become icons, shining examples of what is possible to achieve in hospitality. Be prepared to dissolve into desire for hours on end, each a dazzling destination within a destination. Flawlessly discreet staff, exceptional service, breathtaking settings and equally astounding architecture are traits they have in common — though each is utterly uniq...

Your place or mine? Why shell out thousands when you can swap homes for free? Agencies link you to an owner abroad, so you can enjoy a trip in your own bubble. So why wait! Love Home Swap has properties in over 100 countries overseas as well as a clutch of homes in the UK  With ThirdHome there are more than 11,000 properties to choose from, spanning Costa Rica to Cape Town UK firm Exchange Holiday Homes is based in Cornwall and has 57 homes in the picturesque county

“Robert Spencer and I experienced several troubling instances in Iceland, but the worst was after the talk, when a group of us went to for a few drinks at a local restaurant-bar. Someone slipped a brew of amphetamines, Ritalin and Ecstasy into Mr. Spencer’s drink. He was hospitalized that night and took the rest of the time in Iceland recovering, but making efforts to continue meetings and to be a good sport about a little sightseeing. No doubt his enemies and detractors celebrated his inju...

04 Feb 2021 / 17:20 H. By Alister Doyle LONDON, Feb 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On a barren hillside in southwest Iceland, workers are installing huge fans to suck carbon dioxide from the air and turn it to stone deep below ground, in a radical - but expensive - way to fight global warming. Engineering fixes for climate change are gaining attention and investments in 2021 as companies such as Microsoft and leaders from China, the United States and the European Union work on long-term plan...

Wizz Air has announced a new connection between Luton and Sarajevo in Bosnia & Herzegovina. The carrier is also increasing frequencies on flights to Suceava, Athens, Reykjavik and Dalaman.

Setting climate change in stone by petrifying carbon Direct air capture of carbon dioxide and forcing it underground is just one technology in the fight against climate change, but is it viable? 04 February 2021 - 13:18 Alister Doyle Scientists warn that zombie fires in the Arctic region are releasing millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide. Picture: 123RF/MTELLIOGLU London — On a barren hillside in southwest Iceland, workers are installing huge fans to suck carbon dioxide...