Bloomberg Tesla Inc’s Model 3 earned a coveted Top Safety Pick+ award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), after the sedan performed better in a crash test than the Model S. The Model 3 earned “good” crash ratings in each of IIHS’s tests, including one that measures how vehicles perform in front, driver’s-side-corner collisions. The Model S fell ...

Physically diminutive, intellectually acerbic and with an eye for the ironic, Margaret Ng — lawyer, writer and former legislator — is, at 71, a member of the generation for which this city’s youthful protesters have scant patience. They say the elders have been too patient about Hong Kong’s precarious situation. But, says Ng dryly, the youths frequently welcome assistance from ...

The European Central Bank’s (ECB) decision to reactivate quantitative easing has put monetary policy back in the spotlight. But as the bank’s president Mario Draghi says, the currency union would be in much better shape if countries with strong fiscal positions opened their purses. Fiscal doves will no doubt take heart from a slight softening of tone in Germany, the ...