Christa Pike's survival has exposed a contradiction that capital punishment normally conceals. The state can declare a life forfeit, but when its machinery of death fails, it suddenly becomes responsible for keeping that life alive.
Russia’s financial isolation has produced a parallel system designed to keep money
The death of Hashim Musa, a former Pakistan Army Special Services Group
China has taken another step towards reusable rockets, with two successful booster
The CIA continues to withhold major portions of its internal history of
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An area of 187.56 acres of land belonging to the State Cement Corporation in Kankesanthurai, Jaffna, has been formally released by the Security Forces for future civilian use, allowing the property to
A police sergeant attached to Malwathuhiripitiya Police in Sri Lanka’s Gampaha Police Division has been suspended following an investigation into an alleged attempt to obtain a kilogramme of chicken meat in exchange for securing bail for a suspect. According to
A senior figure in Sri Lanka’s Frontline Socialist Party has claimed that two-thirds of the country’s population has fallen into poverty under the current
Sri Lanka was represented at Moscow Fashion Week with a presentation by Sri Lankan designer Kamil Hewavitharana, whose label Limak by Kamil showcased a
DEFENCE AND DIPLOMACY
by Our Special Correspondent The 30 September incident aboard a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv has revived memories of decades of aircraft hijackings and placed renewed scrutiny on aviation security, Islamist radicalisation and the possibility of attacks involving airline insiders. But as
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Christa Pike was supposed to be executed by lethal injection in Tennessee
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EDITORIALS AND EDITOR'S PICKS
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays
Greenland reveals the Trump Corollary in its most naked form. Far from an empty white space as it is often portrayed, this Inuit society of roughly 57,000 people has a long history of Danish colonial rule and an unfinished struggle for self-determination.
WORLD
Nigel Farage and the rise of Reform UK are becoming a significant factor in the constitutional debate across the United Kingdom, with new polling indicating that support for Scottish independence could rise sharply if Farage became prime minister. A Norstat survey commissioned by the
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces renewed political pressure as the Gen
Taiwan received the first two of 66 new F-16V Block 70 fighter
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has warned that Seoul will take
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Sri Lanka and Russia have concluded a bilateral military exercise in the Russian Federation, with special operations forces from the two countries conducting joint training in weapons, tactical operations, battlefield medicine and
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Nigel Farage and the rise of Reform UK are becoming a significant factor in the constitutional debate across the United Kingdom, with new polling indicating that support for Scottish independence could rise
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Europe’s major rivers recorded exceptionally low flows this summer, disrupting freight transport and energy production as prolonged drought combined with repeated heatwaves. The Copernicus Climate Change Service says the average discharge of
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By the time Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 BC, aged 32, he had accumulated more wealth than any person before him and created an empire larger than any known
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Amazon is seeking to offload about $8 billion worth of advanced Nvidia chips to investors through a new financing vehicle, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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US President Donald Trump’s push to steer $54 billion of South Korean investment into Alaska liquefied natural gas is drawing fresh attention to a proposed 20-million-ton-a-year export project whose estimated cost is
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OpenAI said it disrupted a coordinated campaign in which operators attempted to extract protected reasoning from its artificial intelligence models, linking a core cluster of the activity to Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, the developer of Kimi. The activity began in early July and
Alphabet unveiled Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday, describing it as its most
Google is taking its first major step towards putting artificial intelligence computing
Google chief executive Sundar Pichai and other technology leaders have signed the
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HEALTHCARE AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES
Around 5.8 million refugee children did not attend school in 2025, according to the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, leaving 44 per cent of the world’s 13.2 million school-age refugee children without
China is converting vacant primary schools and kindergartens into elderly care facilities as falling birth rates and a shrinking youth population leave classrooms empty while demand for services for older people increases. Ministry of Education data showed that primary school
Researchers in Europe are developing a 3D bioprinting platform that can create living bone, fat and muscle tissue by combining stem cells with genetically
China is offering 15-year research grants to a select group of exceptionally talented young scientists as it seeks to strengthen basic research and accelerate
BOOKS & REVIEWS
by Nil There is something almost unsettling about the fact that Charles Spencer’s most intimate book about Diana begins, in effect, with a question of possession: who knew her best? His mother,
by Durga The most revealing sentence in Lindy Li’s Unburdened may be the one that sounds least like political analysis: “Why did I do it? You want the unvarnished truth…? It was
by Luxman Anthony Scaramucci’s most revealing confession may also be the sentence that prevents All the Wrong Moves from becoming a conventional anti-Trump polemic: “I bought into Donald Trump. That doesn’t reflect
by Eric A family history can begin with a birth certificate, a grave, a photograph or a name. Edward Ball begins somewhere more difficult: with a sexual encounter whose moral meaning cannot
HISTORY
