BRICS & BRIFuture historians may discuss how large parts of the world began building their own systems of research, production, and technological development.

WAR & PEACEThe Church of Sweden is intensifying contingency planning so that at least 500,000 people could be buried if a Swedish-Russian war were to break out.

CULTUREActress Hayden Panettiere, best known for her roles as Claire Bennet on NBC’s Heroes and Juliette Barnes on Nashville, has died at age 36.

TECHNOLOGYImagine a spaceship with an engine powered by propellantless thrust. No giant fuel tanks. Just pure electric power turning into a steady push through the emptiness of space.

ECONOMYPutin has issued a stark warning to Western countries over their seizures of commercial vessels linked to Russian trade, branding the Western piracy actions as robbery.

TECHNOLOGYResearchers are studying a newly isolated microorganism and its genetic mechanisms in a bid to develop biological methods for tackling persistent plastic and chemical pollution.