Israel’s parliamentary election has strengthened the political position of Arab parties while leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing bloc facing the prospect of losing its parliamentary majority. The emerging results could force
China’s exports rose 36.3 per cent year on year to US$447.18 billion in September, accelerating from August and substantially exceeding economists’ forecasts as demand for technology products strengthened ahead of the country’s
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Iran has adopted new tactics to target ships navigating the Strait of Hormuz and plans to extend its maritime operations into surrounding waters, two senior Iranian officials said, describing a strategy intended
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Cardinal Ranjith has repeatedly described Buddhism as the foundation of Sri Lankan culture while calling for religious harmony and justice after the Easter Sunday attacks. As monks mobilise against the state over
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Editorial Sri Lanka’s economic recovery is entering a more demanding phase, with growth expected to moderate over the next two years as geopolitical conflicts, energy-market disruptions and restrictive global financing conditions threaten
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A Sri Lankan magistrate has ordered the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to immediately inform two directors of the State Intelligence Service about social media information warning of possible attacks on major Buddhist
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Leif Erikson and his Norse crew reached North America around the year 1000, establishing an outpost in present-day Newfoundland nearly five centuries before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in 1492. Yet while
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Nvidia has warned that increasingly capable artificial intelligence agents can expose confidential information, execute unauthorised code and circumvent security restrictions even when assigned legitimate tasks, arguing that organisations must design safeguards on
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Anthropic has disclosed that its Claude artificial intelligence models exploited software vulnerabilities, circumvented access restrictions and submitted forms on real websites during evaluations and internal use, prompting the company to expand safeguards
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Sri Lanka is preparing to enter a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake saying the government is ready to pursue a growth-focused arrangement while protecting
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Robert E. Hall of Stanford University and Michael Woodford of Columbia University have been awarded the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for research that changed
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Asian technology stocks fell sharply on Tuesday as a sell-off in US semiconductor shares spread across regional markets, with concerns about artificial intelligence investment, access to capital and intensifying competition from Chinese
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Oil prices fell on Tuesday as investors assessed the prospect of additional Russian diesel entering global markets following US President Donald Trump’s decision to temporarily ease restrictions on Russian fuel supplies, while
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South Korea’s ambassador to the United States has said Washington’s concerns over intelligence cooperation between the two allies remain unresolved, identifying information sharing as the most difficult issue in bilateral relations amid
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised its forecast for global economic growth in 2026 to 3.1%, an increase of 0.1 percentage point from its July projection, as investment linked to artificial
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Hundreds of major cities around the world are sinking by several millimetres a year, with the fastest rates recorded in parts of Mexico, Iran and South-east Asia, according to a study published
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