Smartphones are handy devices, but they don’t do much good in emergencies. If a hurricane knocks down a few cell towers, or forest fires tear through the already thin infrastructure of remote areas, ...

Rafael Viñoly, a Uruguayan-born architect whose award-winning modernist buildings bring a dramatic flair to skylines around the world, has died. He was 78. Viñoly died of an aneurysm at New York's ...

(Reuters) - Herbal health products maker LKK Health Products Group Ltd, based in Hong Kong, said on Thursday it would buy the "Walkie Talkie" skyscraper in London from Land Securities Group plc and ...

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