With an increasing focus on flying above the city’s problems, a new idea took hold: building an aerial tramway over Griffith Park, the 4,000-acre refuge set in the middle of the city.

In a move straight out of a Bond film, China seems to be building a massive laser-fired nuclear facility in Mianyang, a major science and research city in Sichuan province. Recently-released satellite ...

Previous tests at the site were conducted as satellite ... buildings where the research is believed to be used for research purposes. A second site, situated around 70km southeast of the city ...