It’s been a big week for aliens in Washington. In a podcast that aired last weekend, former President Obama revealed that he believes in extraterrestrial life. Days later, President Trump declared ...

It is often suggested that this may have already happened: alien technosignatures may have reached Earth during the past six decades but have gone unnoticed. If that is true, it suggests that more ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

We may not have found any definitive proof of extraterrestrial life just yet, despite plenty of hope among scientists. But if we were to ever come to an answer in the form of alien biology or ...

Miles Yu is director of the China Center at Hudson Institute. The dramatic purge of China’s highest-ranking uniformed officer, Gen. Zhang Youxia, last weekend is the latest evidence that communist ...

Xi Jinping’s purge of top Chinese generals has cost Western governments a key contact and deepened fears that the People’s Liberation Army is becoming even more walled-off. While the removal of ...

In 1757, a firing squad executed Adm. John Byng on the deck of a Royal Navy warship for “failing to do his utmost” in pursuing the enemy during a battle in the Seven Years’ War. As Voltaire put it, ...

Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...

The ousting of China’s most senior general has set off fevered speculation. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. Chinese politics is often a black box. Foreign leaders struggle to gauge what ...

In today’s complex financial environment, governments need to juggle any number of security threats while keeping the global markets functioning smoothly. From AI attacks to widespread civil war, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Xi Jinping has doubled Chinas defence budget since taking office - Tingshu Wang/AFP China’s highest-ranked general has been placed ...