The White House personnel report lists Natalie Harp as a special assistant and personal aide to the US president, with an annual salary of $150,000. On paper, it is a significant position. Yet the formal description reveals little about why the 35-year-old has become
A debt crisis may not be imminent in the United States, but
For centuries, the Arctic was less a highway than a barrier. European
On August 20, 2026, officials disclosed that two commercial vessels carrying a
Recently on Canadian Prepper, Nate and I discussed the dangers in Putin’s
One of the best known and most honoured singers of Sri Lanka, Sangeetha Visharada Dr Nanda Malini — the artist who marked an entire epoch in the Sri Lankan art of song,
On the 20th of August, a woman named Manori Sallay wrote to the President of Sri Lanka for the second time to ask him not to let her husband die in his custody. Between her first letter in May and
by Our Correspondent in Colombo Sri Lanka is set to enter a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) when its current programme
Editorial Nanda Malini is gone, and Sri Lanka has lost something that cannot simply be replaced by another singer. She may well be the
Fears of a military confrontation between Israel and Turkey are growing after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered air strikes on the Abu Al-Duhur airbase in northwest Idlib province, close to the Turkish border. The eight strikes on Tuesday were presented by Netanyahu as
A fleet of Chinese J-16 fighters has arrived in Egypt for the
US President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, is leaving the White
Climate action must begin where its consequences are most immediate: within communities,
Trump offered to scale down the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise (carried out annually by the US Forces in Korea (USFK) and Republic of Korea (ROK) military). In Trumpian style, the decision was framed as everything all at once: punishment against South Korea for its
Qatar has slashed government department budgets by up to 30 per cent and cut funding for overseas aid by about 85 per cent as the US-Israel war against Iran inflicts a sharp financial shock on one of the world’s richest nations. The small Gulf
Germany has become Europe’s largest regulated cannabis market since partially legalising the
The Pentagon has fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes for insubordination,
Germany and four other European Union member states are negotiating with Rwanda
The White House personnel report lists Natalie Harp as a special assistant and personal aide to the US president, with an annual salary of $150,000. On paper, it is a significant position.
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Fears of a military confrontation between Israel and Turkey are growing after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered air strikes on the Abu Al-Duhur airbase in northwest Idlib province, close to the
More A fleet of Chinese J-16 fighters has arrived in Egypt for the Eagles of Civilisation 2026 exercise, marking the aircraft’s first-ever deployment to Africa and providing a significant test of the People’s
More For centuries, the Arctic was less a highway than a barrier. European explorers searched for a northern maritime passage to Asia from the 1500s onwards, repeatedly confronting ice, distance and extreme conditions.
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Qatar has slashed government department budgets by up to 30 per cent and cut funding for overseas aid by about 85 per cent as the US-Israel war against Iran inflicts a sharp
More Germany has become Europe’s largest regulated cannabis market since partially legalising the drug two years ago, with imports surging even as conservative politicians warn that the reform could increase health risks and
More The Pentagon has fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes for insubordination, extending the Trump administration’s confrontation with dissent to a military newspaper with a long history of editorial independence and significant
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Tesla and eight other automakers will recall about 4.3 million vehicles in China over concerns that emergency door-release mechanisms could be difficult to locate or operate, marking the country’s largest automotive recall
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The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber €825 million ($966 million) for deactivating drivers’ accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them, delivering the second-largest penalty yet imposed under Europe’s General
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In Karur, near the southern tip of India, the rise of artificial intelligence is visible not only in technology but in the hundreds of young people who fill the city’s streets during breaks from work. Men and women in their 20s move between offices
The company says it has temporarily paused some advanced reinforcement-learning training as
Meta faces its most consequential legal challenge as a former engineer alleges
Millions of people are now forming relationships with artificial intelligence, using chatbots
Several years ago, psychiatrist Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell began noticing a striking change among teenage girls and young women arriving for their first psychiatric sessions. Instead of waiting anxiously to hear whether a professional
A Harvard-led team has developed a method for keeping human brain organoids alive and developing for years, opening new possibilities for studying brain development, neurological disease and potential treatments. A team led by Paola Arlotta of Harvard University has developed
The smartphone has turned even the bathroom into a place of digital escape, raising wider questions about attention, relationships and the ability to disconnect.
On a warm May night, as a spring tide pushes the waters of Delaware Bay far up the beach, Atlantic horseshoe crabs emerge from
From parasitic worms and disease-carrying insects to the intimate partnerships between fungi, algae and the human microbiome, two books reviewed by Nature explore how every species exists within a web of biological
The release of Under the Red Triangle by Susil Hettiarachchi, former General Secretary of the Dehiwala YMCA, could hardly have come at a more symbolic moment. As more than 1,300 delegates gathered
As borders become easier to cross for those with wealth, citizenship itself has become part of a growing global marketplace. Countries are increasingly offering passports and residency rights to investors, creating new
by Nil The Impossible Factory constructs a powerful and at times troubling mythology of technological genius centred on Kelly Johnson and the Skunk Works enterprise. Rather than a conventional biography, the book
