Ordinary Americans today enjoy a living standard that would have awed kings for most of human history. We live in homes conditioned to our ideal temperature in any season; drive vehicles that pack the power of 250 horses into a 100-square-foot metal frame; carry six-ounce rectangles that offer instant access to virtually any loved one, book, song, fact, or pornography; inhale gases that take the pain out of any surgery; replace our worn-out hips with titanium; glide 40,000 feet above the Earth i...

Ordinary Americans today enjoy a living standard that would have awed kings for most of human history. We live in homes conditioned to our ideal temperature in any season; drive vehicles that pack the power of 250 horses into a 100-square-foot metal frame; carry six-ounce rectangles that offer instant access to virtually any loved one, book, song, fact, or pornography; inhale gases that take the pain out of any surgery; replace our worn-out hips with titanium; glide 40,000 feet above the Earth i...

SINGAPORE — Unhappy with a male bus passenger who had flashed him an obscene hand gesture, a man flung a glass bottle at the vehicle from the side of a road. The bottle broke a window of the double-decker bus and struck the passenger’s 57-year-old wife, causing the woman to sustain facial wounds that had to be stitched up. Three days after the incident in July, Quztaza Kamarudin, 38, was arrested after he was identified as the man who had thrown the bottle. While out on bail, he stole a...

Police on Wednesday arrested a 32-year-old man after his car reportedly hit and killed an elderly man near Mai Po in Lok Ma Chau in the early hours of the morning. The vehicle was travelling along Tam Kon Chau Road towards Yuen Long when it hit the 94-year-old man shortly after 4am. The victim sustained multiple serious injuries and was taken to Prince of Wales Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at around 7.30am. The driver was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving causing death. The po...