State intelligence agency claims ‘former officials’ also planned to assassinate governing party head Ivanishvili. Georgia’s state intelligence agency has announced the opening of an investigation into a plot to “violently overthrow” the government. In a statement posted on Facebook on Wednesday, the State Security Service of Georgia said it is “investigating criminal activities” aimed at creating unrest, including a plot to kill Bidzina Ivanishvili, the honorary chairman of...

People & Power investigates the mass evictions of thousands of residents at the famous UNESCO World Heritage Site. Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, or “City of Temples”, is the largest religious structure in the world. A truly spectacular place, it is deeply revered across Cambodia and depicted on its flag as the defining image of the nation. In 1992, UNESCO designated Angkor as a World Heritage Site. The UN agency...

For decades, scientists have floated theories about dark matter, which is believed to hold galaxies together by its gravitational pull. The enigma of dark matter continues, and now scientists have discovered what they call dark oxygen on the ocean’s floor. A recent study published in Nature Geoscience, a journal dedicated to Earth sciences research, shows oxygen emitted from mineral deposits 4,000 meters (about 13,000 feet) below the ocean’s...