Local officials in a city on China’s south-central coast have knocked down a Protestant church and demolished several Catholic statues. The moves fit into a pattern of official unease with the rapid growth of Christianity in China.

Scientists have found a way to reverse aging in mice. If it works in humans, too, youth-hungry baby-boomers may soon be hunting for millennial blood.

Libya elected a new Prime Minister yesterday, but within hours, the vote was declared illegal. That brings the total to a half-dozen PMs in the past three years.

America just got its first look at Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), after a patient who had recently traveled to Riyadh ended up in an Indiana hospital. The disease has a roughly 50 percent fatality rate, and it’s spreading to every corner of the world.

As Hamas begins to entertain even a slight moderation in its stance towards Israel, a more consistently rejectionist group stands in the wings ready to capitalize.

Rather than banding together, Pakistan’s media outlets are hurling accusations at each other in the aftermath of the shooting of a famous TV journalist.

Harvard students blockaded the university’s administrative offices Thursday in protest of the school’s brown energy investments. This divestment protest reflects a naivety that the modern green movement should be working hard to purge if it wants to be taken seriously.

Indians and foreigners alike yearn for a government in Delhi that can get things done. But it’s one thing to pray for a strongman like Modi to deliver you from the Congress party, and quite another to live under the reign of a “benevolent despot.” In addition, there are limits to what Modi will be able to accomplish.

Nuclear energy can produce large amounts of electricity consistently, something no renewable source can yet claim, and it does so without emitting greenhouse gases. Environmentalists have so far been slow to embrace nuclear power, but that may be changing.

Good afternoon, TAI readers! We hope you’ve enjoyed your weekend. Tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo, but before you finalize your holiday plans, take a moment to look back on what you may have missed over the past week.