Angel Gimalo

For 457 years, one map has shaped how generations of people around the world visualised the size of continents. The Mercator projection, introduced in 1569, became one of the world's most widely recognised maps. Originally designed primarily for navigation, its method of projecting the spherical Earth onto a...

The U.S. president says Washington could remain engaged in Iran instead of leaving after the war, drawing comparisons with a controversial oil arrangement involving Venezuela. U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested that the United States could remain in Iran after the current war and potentially benefit from the country's...

Diplomatic efforts to reopen the world's most important oil chokepoint have stumbled, while attacks on shipping and Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure threaten to put millions more barrels of global supply at risk. Diplomacy aimed at easing the crisis around the Strait of Hormuz has hit a major setback, raising...