Editorial Lal Wijenayake’s death removes a voice from the National People’s Power and Sri Lanka’s public life. His significance lies not in the offices he held, but in his refusal to let
Argentina’s monthly inflation has dropped below 2% for the first time in five years, a milestone victory for President Javier Milei in his campaign to tame the country’s long-standing inflation crisis. According
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British goods exports to the United States suffered their sharpest monthly fall on record in April, tumbling by £2 billion from the previous month to just £4 billion, according to figures released
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It is now beyond doubt: General He Weidong, once one of China’s most powerful military figures, has been purged. As reported by Nikkei, the general’s disappearance from public life in March was
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Oil prices surged dramatically on Friday, posting their biggest single-day gain in over three years, after Israeli air strikes targeted Iranian nuclear facilities — a development that threatens to destabilize one of
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Leading scientists from around the world have launched an urgent international campaign to halt the creation of synthetic “mirror life” — a form of engineered bacteria that experts fear could pose a
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China’s electric vehicle (EV) sector is teetering on a financial knife-edge, as a deepening price war triggers liquidity shortfalls and mounting pressure on automakers’ balance sheets. An investigation by the Financial Times
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South Korea’s recently elected left-leaning president Lee Jae-myung has taken his first major step toward resetting inter-Korean relations by ordering an end to provocative loudspeaker broadcasts along the heavily militarized border. The
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by Our Correspondent in Doha Iran has launched a wave of Shahed-136 drones toward Israel in direct retaliation for a series of Israeli airstrikes earlier today that reportedly killed several senior Iranian
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In a remarkable scientific advancement published in Nature, researchers have developed a brain–computer interface (BCI) that enables a man with a severe speech disability to speak expressively and even sing — using
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A groundbreaking study published in Neuron on June 5 reveals how the brain tells the difference between real and imagined images — a cognitive skill most of us take for granted but
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A year after Agility Robotics’ humanoid robot Digit began working in a warehouse, lifting boxes of Spanx, the conversation around humanoid robots has shifted from novelty to necessity—particularly the need for clear
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The Trump administration’s aggressive push to streamline federal agencies continues to reverberate, with the latest casualty being a critical oversight body within the Department of Defense. As reported by MIT Technology Review,
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by Our Correspondent in Doha In the wake of a deadly Israeli airstrike on Tehran, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has issued two major interim military appointments, signaling Iran’s readiness for
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by Our Correspondent in Doha A series of coordinated Israeli airstrikes struck multiple locations in and around Tehran overnight, killing several high-ranking Iranian military and civilian officials, including Major General Hossein Salami,
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Tragedy struck on Thursday when an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed minutes after takeoff from Ahmedabad, killing more than 200 people on board. Authorities have confirmed at least one survivor from
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