The poster still hangs outside the Migrolino kiosk at the railway station, as if the event were about to begin. Beside it stand heavily armed members of the cantonal police, an unmistakable sign that something has gone badly wrong. The occasion was the seventh
After months of exhausting all options and with limited impact from Operation
Less than a month after Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan created the
The arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) for a ‘leisure trip’ in
At roughly 8:30 AM on 26 August 2026, a wall of water,
It never rains but it pours. While taking a huge political gamble by trying to amend the Constitution to raise the retirement ages of the judges of the Superior Courts and grappling
Some friendships begin in the most unexpected circumstances. Ours began sometime in 1978, at a seminar organised by our college on the famous Sinhala film “Gahanu Lamai”. I had stayed back after school, eager to have the opportunity to interact
Sri Lanka has lost the hosting rights for the inaugural Women’s Champions Trophy after the International Cricket Council (ICC) decided it could not proceed
The CID was once widely known as the “secret police”, and the very mention of the CID’s infamous “Fourth Floor” was enough to send
Meta has finally fallen over the legal precipice towards which it had been edging for years. This week’s agreement with 52 US attorneys general, under which they will withdraw their lawsuit accusing the company of developing an addictive social network for minors, marks a
More than 3.6 million people pass through room number 12 of Madrid’s
The Pentagon is facing a striking dual pressure: an increasingly political battle
Nicolás Maduro has released the first known images of himself from inside
Throughout Buddhist history, scholars and practitioners have warned against treating the path as a purely dry, intellectual pursuit—often referred to as “dry insight” or “scholasticism”—without the balancing warmth of the heart ~ Alan Wallace, prominent scholar and teacher, author of The Four Immeasurables: Cultivating
Russia views growing NATO activity in the Arctic as a direct threat to its security, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday, as alliance members increase their military presence in the region following Russia’s war on Ukraine. NATO launched a mission called Arctic Sentry
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran’s energy hub of
Chinese authorities said on Sunday that 261 foreign citizens were missing following
North Korea has dismissed its defence minister as part of a wider
China has completed a high-resolution mapping of the seabed in its claimed waters, including the South China Sea, after more than two decades of work, according to scientists involved in the project.
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As relations between US President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have become increasingly strained, America’s ambassador to Italy has embarked on a very different form of diplomacy: a 383-foot
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Meta has finally fallen over the legal precipice towards which it had been edging for years. This week’s agreement with 52 US attorneys general, under which they will withdraw their lawsuit accusing
More More than 3.6 million people pass through room number 12 of Madrid’s Prado Museum each year to admire Diego Velázquez’s La familia de Felipe IV, better known since the 19th century as
More The Pentagon is facing a striking dual pressure: an increasingly political battle over who speaks for the US military, and growing concern among senior commanders about the resources being consumed by the
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The next stage of the technological transformation may not be about making machines more intelligent, but about making them appear more human. From humanoid robots with increasingly realistic faces and movements to
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The relationship between the United States and Taiwan has “never been stronger”, the top American diplomat in Taipei said on Monday, highlighting Taiwan’s growing role in US high-tech manufacturing and investment. Although
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Russia views growing NATO activity in the Arctic as a direct threat to its security, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday, as alliance members increase their military presence in the region
More US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Iran’s energy hub of Kharg Island was being “blown to smithereens”, after US forces struck two rocket launchers on another Iranian island in the
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China’s three biggest state-owned airlines have reported first-half losses for the seventh consecutive year, hit by sharply higher jet fuel prices and a weaker-than-expected summer travel season. Air China, China Eastern Airlines
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The next stage of the technological transformation may not be about making machines more intelligent, but about making them appear more human. From humanoid robots with increasingly realistic faces and movements to conversational systems that say “I’m thinking”, artificial intelligence is acquiring the outward
Anthropic is testing a new software standard designed to allow artificial intelligence
Hong Kong is expanding the use of artificial intelligence on its 1823
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has warned of the growing social risks posed
Australia has confirmed its first case of H5N1 bird flu in a mammal, after the highly pathogenic virus was detected in a long-nosed fur seal in South Australia, authorities said on Sunday.
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 believed something was wrong with them, many arrived
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,
The smartphone has turned even the bathroom into a place of digital escape, raising wider questions about attention, relationships and the ability to disconnect.
by Eric Chris A. Rutkowski’s Canada’s UFO Secrets: Disclosing Government Files on What Is Happening in Our Skies is most interesting when it stops behaving like a UFO book. Its real subject
by Nil Rory Cormac’s Fakers is not merely a history of British covert propaganda. It is an anatomy of a state learning to weaponise uncertainty. Its most unsettling achievement is to show
by Durga Mahvash Sabet’s Open Wide the Doors: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and Freedom in Iran is ostensibly a prison memoir, but its real subject is larger and more dangerous: what
by Luxman Laura K. Field’s Furious Minds is an ambitious and often unsettling attempt to explain not merely what the MAGA New Right believes, but how a movement once dismissed as a
