Burkina Faso’s President, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has reportedly declined an offer from Saudi Arabia to construct 200 mosques in the country, urging the kingdom to prioritize investments in critical infrastructure such as
Artificial intelligence (AI) is undergoing a significant evolution, as developers increasingly focus on building agents — autonomous systems capable of perceiving their environment and acting independently to achieve goals. According to a
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For more than 25 years, the internet’s front door has been unmistakably simple: a blank white page, a search bar, and the iconic Google logo. That minimalist design has been the launchpad
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The humble potato — long celebrated as a staple food and driver of historic empires — has just had its deepest secret uncovered: it is, quite literally, a child of the tomato.
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Professor Arjuna Parakrama has issued a sharp and deeply critical response to the education reforms proposed by Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya, calling them hollow, unoriginal, and dangerously
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Researchers have found that merely seeing someone who appears sick can activate the body’s immune system, as if preparing for infection. The study, published on July 28 in Nature Neuroscience, reveals how
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In a remarkable leap, materials chemist Nan Liu jumped from a postdoctoral post in the United States to a full professorship in China — armed with a 4 million yuan (US$560,000) research
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo In 2026, Sri Lanka will witness one of the most significant shifts in its education system in decades. At the helm of this transformation is Prime Minister
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There seems to be no end in sight to headline-grabbing controversies at the White House, during US President Donald Trump’s second term’. They range from Trump’s snide remarks about visiting dignitaries to
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In a characteristically unfiltered and provocative interview with El País, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek opens the floodgates on his personal misanthropy, political despair, and philosophical radicalism, delivering a stream of consciousness that
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Issued today, 8 July 2025, by the Hinrich Foundation in Singapore, Stewart Paterson’s incisive report “Will Industrial Policy Restore American Manufacturing Leadership?” interrogates the ambitious, multifaceted campaign by the United States to
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