Friedrich Merz is facing renewed pressure within Germany’s governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) after a series of poor regional election results, with senior figures in the party calling for changes to its
Two studies published in Nature Health on 6 February reveal that cheap, readily available AI chatbots, or large language models (LLMs), can enhance clinical decision-making and even outperform trained doctors in controlled,
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More than four years after the MV X-Press Pearl caught fire and sank off Sri Lanka’s western coast, the country is still struggling to turn a historic court ruling into tangible compensation.
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Sri Lanka’s long-term coal supply agreement with Trident Chemphar Ltd. will remain in force after the third shipment of coal reportedly cleared required quality standards, easing immediate concerns over supply disruptions, according
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India is set to secure zero-duty access for goods worth around $44 billion under the first phase of a new bilateral trade agreement with the United States, marking a significant expansion of
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President Javier Milei has launched his most confrontational bid yet to reshape Argentina’s economy, pushing a sweeping labour reform bill that has brought him into direct conflict with the country’s powerful trade
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The chairman and chief executive of Dubai-based logistics giant DP World maintained a close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and exchanged emails containing explicit references to sexual encounters, according to documents released by
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Tata Steel has warned it may be forced to mothball steel mills across the United Kingdom, putting more than 3,000 jobs at risk, as the country becomes what executives describe as a
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The name of the Dalai Lama has appeared 168 times in newly released court files related to Jeffrey Epstein, triggering renewed international scrutiny of the Tibetan spiritual leader’s past associations, according to
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From the moment a visitor stands at the foot of Sigiriya and looks up at its mist-veiled summit, a strange quiet seems to press down on the landscape. The sheer granite monolith,
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by Durga Yi-Ling Liu’s The Wall Dancers begins not with theory or metaphor but with a body learning fear. “When I was a child in Beijing, I learned early how to stay
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Pavan K. Varma’s The Lady Who Carried the Monk Across the River presents itself as a parable “for ordinary people,” but that description is almost aggressively misleading. This is not a gentle
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Algeria has begun formal procedures to cancel its air services agreement with the United Arab Emirates, a move that signals a further deterioration in relations between the two countries. The agreement, signed
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Anthropic is spending millions of dollars on commercials during Sunday night’s National Football League championship game to take a public swipe at rival OpenAI, escalating one of the most visible clashes yet
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In the Sardinian city of Nuoro, a high stone wall still surrounds a prison once infamous for housing Italy’s most dangerous mobsters and convicted terrorists, exiled far from the mainland. For years,
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Iran will strike U.S. military bases across the Middle East if it comes under attack by American forces, its foreign minister has warned, as tensions escalate amid a growing U.S. military presence
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