The increasing sophistication of unmanned drones and the danger that they pose has governments in a tailspin, writes Robert Beckhusen.

China’s military says its soldiers have grown taller and wider over the past two decades, leading to cramped tanks and other equipment problems.

China’s military today accused the United States and Britain of cynically engineering Slobodan Milosevic’s war crimes trial to clear the way for Nato’s eastward expansion.

Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui arrived in Japan today on a trip that marked a diplomatic coup for the isolated island but threatened to exacerbate tense relations between Japan and China.