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Over the years, governments have adopted, altered or ignored Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as they saw fit. The U.S. didn't sign its time zones into law until 1918. China used to have five time zones, but in 1949 communist leaders reorganized the country under one zone. Part of western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do Countries Determine Their Time Zones? | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

Tehran's goal is to develop the full nuclear-energy fuel cycle, which includes enriching uranium. While legitimate under the NPT as long as it is subject to IAEA monitoring, such a program would nonetheless give Iran the capacity to move relatively quickly to build a bomb, which is why...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Iran's Response on the Nuclear Deal | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

Given the two sides' sharply different ideas on the end point of their mutual journey, it's not easy to agree even on substantial "confidence building" measures. Iran appears to be open to greater safeguards and oversight of its ongoing nuclear work, like opening its hitherto secret enrichment facility under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Iran's Response on the Nuclear Deal | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

Those lighter sentences mean more and more students have started to defy the long-standing ban and get exposed to life outside the North's borders. One defector says that when students are caught, they buy cigarettes for police officers to escape labor sentences, and sometimes even give officers the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soap-Opera Diplomacy: North Koreans Crave Banned Videos | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

Rösler now has one of the most difficult jobs in Merkel's cabinet. As Health Minister, he'll come under intense pressure from the myriad lobbyists, medical insurers, doctors' groups and pharmaceutical companies as he attempts to change the financing structure of the country's health-care system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Task Ahead for Germany's First Asian Minister: Health Care Reform | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

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