In north-western Sri Lanka, an electric fence stretching 14 kilometres along the Siyambalangamuwa tank is the main defence protecting more than 2,000 families from wild elephants entering nearby villages. For wildlife officer
“Farming is not just a way of life; it is a way of thinking about our relationship with the earth.” This idea, echoed by generations of agricultural pioneers, captures a growing global
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In a narrative of resistance and uncertainty, Harvard University has emerged from a tense confrontation with the administration of President Donald Trump with a partial legal victory, but without clarity on what
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Elon Musk’s position at the summit of global wealth has widened into unprecedented territory following SpaceX’s public offering on June 12, which pushed the founder and chief executive into what the reporting
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A long-running confrontation between the Vatican and one of the Catholic Church’s most traditionalist movements entered a new phase on Wednesday when the Society of Saint Pius X, commonly known as the
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Editorial The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka stands before a historic moment. The appointment of Rev. Dr. Anton Ranjith Pillainayagam as the Bishop of Jaffna is not simply another episcopal appointment announced
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Editorial Today is our Poson Poya Day. The day we are asked to believe that we got Buddhism, even though, according to our own historical tales, we are asked at the same
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A panel convened by the Bar Council will recommend this week that the minimum age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales be raised from 10 to 14, according to reporting by
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On Wednesday morning, Anant Ambani, heir to one of the world’s largest fortunes, was on his way to work with his wife when he spotted an injured crow by the road. He
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A company that helped destroy farmland and threaten protesters in Liberia is now trying to mine the coast of eastern Sri Lanka, and it has not bothered to change its strategy, only
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Sri Lanka is sitting on the fourth rarest gemstone on earth, and instead of turning that into national leverage, it is letting individual traders smuggle it out through informal channels because the
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When The New York Times assigns five journalists, including a police reporter, a court reporter and a politics editor, to investigate a wedding rumor, it signals that the event is more than
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When Matthias Rohde turned towards the woman sitting in the defendant’s dock and said, “We are a couple,” the courtroom in Rostock fell into a moment of disbelief. After two days of
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The latest episode in the ongoing feud between Brooklyn Beckham and his parents Victoria and David Beckham played out publicly in an advert Brooklyn has just done for the food service delivery
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In a March 2026 paper published in the journal Science Advances, which focused on variability in governance along the autocratic-democratic axis, my coauthors and I found that one of the strongest associations for the 40
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Social media and video platforms have become the main way people around the world access news, surpassing traditional news organizations’ websites, mobile applications and television channels, according to the Digital News Report
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