To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...

At some point in his life, Donald Trump looked at a world map and saw something he wants – something that, as president of the US, he now says he will take “one way or the other.” It’s Greenland, an ...

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Analysis: Winston Peters heads home from Washington DC armed with fresh intel on what the new US administration is thinking, and the impact it might have on New Zealand and the wider Pacific. His ...

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THE subject of map projections is one in which the English language is strangely deficient, a deficiency the more apparent when contrasted with the wealth of Continental literature on the subject.

Catherine Peters, who has died aged 94, had a lauded academic career that only began when she was 50; The King of Inventors (2016), is the standard life of Wilkie Collins, and she also wrote much ...

Supporters of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters are trying to persuade the governor and state lawmakers to do something about her long prison sentence, on the heels of news that the U.S ...

Winston Peters is rallying against DEI policies. Photo / Mark Mitchell Senior National MP Chris Bishop said his party would consider the bill if it were pulled from Parliament’s ballot and put ...