SriLankan Airlines improved its underlying operating performance in 2024/25, but engine shortages, 487 flight cancellations, falling passenger revenue and LKR 31.6 billion in finance costs pushed the Group into a LKR 2.74
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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On a warm morning outside a Los Angeles courthouse, silence carried more weight than slogans. Thirteen parents stood shoulder to shoulder on the stone steps, each holding a framed photograph of a
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Half a century has passed since Concorde lifted off with paying passengers for the first time, yet the anniversary feels less like a celebration and more like a quiet admission of loss.
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The internet has always been powered by a simple, humbling impulse: the need to ask a question we are slightly embarrassed not to know the answer to. Long before algorithms curated feeds
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When Hugo Chávez arrived in London in October 2001, two years into his presidency, the visit was presented as routine diplomacy between allies. Chávez was scheduled to meet prime minister Tony Blair
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