Bloomberg Indonesia has extended stricter social-distancing rules to millions of people living on the main island of Java, and in West Sumatra, as the world’s fourth-most populous nation strives to stem a spike in coronavirus cases. Large-scale social restrictions will be put in place across five regions in West Java that collectively house almost 9 million people, Health Minister Terawan ...

The US Space Force — which has been dismissed variously as a fantasy, a presidential folly and a prospective Pentagon turf war — was finally set to launch for real on Saturday — as 86 newly minted space warriors graduate from the Air Force Academy. The surprise in this space startup, so far, is that most of the bad things ...

Judging by the number of motor vehicles being stolen in New York City right now, cars have become no less desirable during a lockdown. Burglary rates aren’t a reliable economic indicator, but they’re far from the only sign that car demand could prove more resilient than might appear from recent record sales declines. If unemployment doesn’t surge even higher — ...