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How Japan keeps its trains safe from earthquakes

Japan in Focus

Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for example, has never seen a death or serious injury due to an earthquake or tsunami. Japan may offer lessons to other countries as climate change causes more natural disasters globally.

Street Art Gets Truckin’

Arts, Culture & Media
Boy sitting on cream sofa holding child's drawing, looking at it

A 3-year-old held up by Canada’s no-fly list? His parents say it’s ‘ridiculous.’

Global Politics
Taxi driver Gabriel Saad searches for passengers in Beirut.

Uber has met its match with Lebanon’s old-school carpool taxis

Economics
People walk past Stockmann shopping center in Helsinki, Finland, on May 6, 2017.

How one city plans to steer residents away from driving

Development
Stockholm's highly-efficient subway system. Trains are known for running frequently and on time. They have large ridership but are not overly crowded because of the frequency of the trains.

US transportation is so far behind Sweden’s it’s not even funny

Economics

America is literally falling apart.

Pollution

Why Mexico City’s bad air can’t be ignored — or easily fixed

Environment

The Mexican capital worked hard to shed its image as one of the world’s most polluted cities. Are those efforts now backsliding?

Buildings shrouded in smog in Mexico City

Mexico City residents are forced to cope with bad air

Environment

New restrictions have reduced the number of cars on the road, but that might not make much of a difference.

The Soulbury Stone sits in the middle of the road in Soulbury. But an auto accident forced locals to surround it with traffic cones as a stopgap measure to protect it.

This stone sits in the middle of a road — and people are just fine with it

Culture

The Soulbury Stone has rested in the middle of a road in the small town of Soulbury, England for 11,000 years. And if residents have their way, it will sit there for eternity.

A US-made AH-1W Cobra helicopter launches hellfire missiles during the annual Han Kuang No. 22 Military Exercise in Ilan county, 49 miles west of Taipei July 20, 2006

It’s not unusual to transport ‘dummy’ Hellfire missiles on civilian flights

Conflict

The Hellfire missile that showed up on an Air Serbia plane and launched an international incident was insert. Turns out, it’s not at all uncommon for these inert, test missiles to be transported on civilian flights.

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