Donald Trump faces a potentially damaging electoral defeat as Americans prepare to vote in midterm elections, with economic dissatisfaction, allegations of corruption and growing opposition to his foreign policy threatening Republican control
by Our Correspondent in Colombo In a dramatic and controversial reversal, the National Police Commission (NPC) has decided to dismiss Senior Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Nilantha Jayawardena from the Sri Lanka Police,
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The British government has secretly paid foreign YouTubers to produce and publish videos as part of a covert propaganda operation orchestrated through a £10 million contract with a private media agency, Declassified
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Documents expose UK’s close ties with Azerbaijan amid crackdown on dissent and Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Newly declassified British government files have revealed that the UK’s Metropolitan Police delivered counter-terrorism training to officers in
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The U.S. President Donald Trump has issued a stern warning to BRICS nations, threatening a 10% tariff on all imports from member states if they continue efforts to challenge the dominance of
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The political future of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky may be hanging by a thread, according to renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who cites informed U.S. officials suggesting that Zelensky could soon be
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The legacy of Zong Qinghou, once China’s richest man and founder of the iconic Wahaha beverage empire, has been plunged into turmoil as his daughter and presumed heir faces a legal battle
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For anyone who has ever felt groggy and disoriented after hitting the snooze button, science may now have an answer for why. A groundbreaking study published today in Current Biology has revealed
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The world is now closer to nuclear catastrophe than ever before, with artificial intelligence (AI), misinformation, and geopolitical instability creating a fragile new landscape for nuclear security. A powerful investigation published in
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Google has turned more than two billion Android smartphones into a crowd-sourced global earthquake detection system — a bold initiative that is already alerting millions of people across 98 countries, according to
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A team of astronomers led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered an unexpectedly intricate web of gas filaments within a massive, fast-moving hydrogen cloud
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A groundbreaking study led by Dr. Li Chuanyun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has revealed a surprising double-edged role of human-specific genes. These genes,
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by Durga Jay Heinrichs’ Aristotle’s Guide to Self-Persuasion (2025) is an audacious amalgam of classical rhetoric, pop culture exegesis, and self-help exhortation, positing that Aristotelian persuasive techniques can catalyse personal transformation. With
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by Nil Shunryu Suzuki’s Becoming Yourself: Teachings on the Zen Way of Life, curated by Jiryu Rutschman-Byler and Sojun Mel Weitsman, constitutes a limpid yet provocative compendium of Soto Zen teachings, distilled
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J. Randy Taraborrelli’s JFK: The Kennedy Years constitutes an ambitious, if occasionally florid, exegesis of John F. Kennedy’s life, with a particular emphasis on his personal entanglements and political ascendancy. This voluminous
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Jack El-Hai’s The Nazi and the Psychiatrist offers a perspicuous and disquieting exploration of the psychological interplay between Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, a US Army psychiatrist, and Hermann Göring, a preeminent Nazi
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