Chinese robots are being used to move parts in electric-vehicle factories and to carry out search-and-rescue operations in disaster zones. They are delighting audiences by performing complex dance routines. And robot dogs with automatic rifles attached to their backs are even being tested by the People&s Liberation Army.

US president Donald Trump threatened Iran yesterday with bombing and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear programme.

&We&re in the same boat with our trading partners. If one partner shoots a hole in the boat, does it make sense for the other one to shoot another hole in the boat? Some say yes, and call that getting tough. Well, I call it stupid.& These were the words of US president Ronald Reagan in a 1987 radio address from Camp David.

A woman gave birth to a baby girl as the hospital she was in was ­evacuated during the catastrophic earthquake that struck Myanmar and Thailand.