Kites either catch the wind and fly or drag across the ground as you run your heart out trying to keep the string untangled. Sometimes, you get too excited when the kite catches a puff of wind and ...

At some point, many of us were briefly fascinated with kites. The reason we were only briefly interested in this hobby was that it was fraught with failure: The kite never flew or, if it did, it was ...

KYOTO--Black kites, a bird of prey, have apparently found an easier target for food in central Kyoto: people eating outdoors. The kites are not only swooping down and snatching food from people’s ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bertjan Pot, Liesbeth Abbenes and Maurice Scheltens are gathered in The Hague’s Museum Voorlinden after hours.

Kites have lifted us since ancient times, providing thrills, beauty, and utility. They have been used all over the world for communication, recreation, science, transport, industry, and even energy ...

Kieron Jansch’s first kite was a diamond-shaped stunt kite with a tail. His friend had bought it for him, and Jansch loved it, but also managed to run it repeatedly into the ground. At the time he was ...

Scientists are testing an ocean energy harvesting kite to generate power from waves. Ocean currents are powerful, constant and close to shore—making them an ideal source for renewable energy. Watch as ...

After Pfizer outbid Gilead for Medivation last September, Todd Hagopian named 4 companies Gilead might go after next. Kite Pharma, then trading at about $55, was among them. On Monday, Gilead proved ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Two groups of men stood on opposite rooftops perched on a hillside overlooking Rio de Janeiro's Ipanema beach, taunting one another. It was a macho showdown between opponents ...

A SYMPATHY with the business spirit, and a deep comprehension of the underlying laws of real finance, are to be acquired in no better way, as I believe, than by flying kites. I refer, not to the ...

A man has been arrested after five red kites were found dead in a field. The birds of prey were found poisoned in Orsett, ...