The Hill termed it a “blistering critique”, the Huffington Post UK called it a “savage takedown of Donald Trump”, noting Uhlmann’s observation that Mr Trump had been an “uneasy, lonely, awkward” figure. 

...

America is becoming more and more of an echo chamber.

merkel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday defended President Trump’s daughter Ivanka for briefly sitting in for her father during a Group of 20 summit meeting in Germany.

He is attempting to create the impression that he can jettison our Paris commitments, that he can control electricity prices, and that he would fund and build a new ultra supercritical coal-fired power station.

An Australian geologist who is trying to prove the existence of the biblical great flood will be allowed to collect rock samples from the Grand Canyon.

Andrew Snelling was awarded a PhD by the University of Sydney in 1982 and is the director of research at Answers in Genesis, a Christian science group that believes in the literal interpretation of the Bible.

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has been criticised for suggesting Australia might support US trade sanctions on China, with his comments labelled “potentially very dangerous” by one expert.

Robotics has replaced humans in many areas of work. One of the latest machines does extreme precision surgery. Presently, one still needs a surgeon to operate it but the technique demands more skills from a video parlour game arcade than from years of operating theatre. Eventually, the machines can learn from doing the job without human intervention, a bit like in car manufacturing. 

More than three-quarters of a century after the delegates of the Second Continental Congress voted to quit the Kingdom of Great Britain and declared that “all men are created equal,” Frederick Douglass stepped up to the lectern at Corinthian Hall, in Rochester, New York, and, in an Independence Day address to the Ladies of the Rochester Anti-Slavery Sewing Society, made manifest the darkest ironies embedded in American history and in the national self-regard. “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?” Douglass asked...