At 27, Verena Bahlsen entered the leadership of the family company that had produced biscuits for generations. Two years later, she was gone. The departure marked the end of an unusually public
At 27, Verena Bahlsen entered the leadership of the family company that had produced biscuits for generations. Two years later, she was gone. The departure marked the end of an unusually public
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“On this International Day of Peace, let us all be inspired by the courage of those who champion peace in neighborhoods, classrooms and communities. And let’s call on world leaders to invest
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Paul B. Preciado has spent much of his intellectual life questioning the boundaries that separate male from female, normal from pathological and accepted identities from those placed outside the social norm. Now
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At 14, Sabrina González Pasterski built her own aircraft and learned to fly it. At 22, she wrote a paper on gravitational memory and black holes that was subsequently cited by Stephen
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In 1960, the US economist Walt Whitman Rostow published The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. The subtitle revealed the book’s purpose. Rostow did not merely describe economic development; he offered an
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For an awards ceremony defined by competition, surprise and nostalgia, the decisive story was nevertheless Widow’s Bay: a newcomer that transformed an evening of established favourites and farewells into an unexpected triumph.
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Sri Lanka needs a radical but practical reform of its school and university education to better prepare young people for a changing global economy. The proposals include reducing schooling from 13 to
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For Vivian Jenna Wilson, rebellion has become both personal and public. The 22-year-old transgender model and one of Elon Musk’s 14 children has emerged as a prominent critic of her father, and
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has urged governments and leading AI companies to act urgently as increasingly powerful and autonomous AI systems create unprecedented risks to human rights, essential
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The Himalayas are approaching a tipping point as glaciers melt faster than they did a decade ago, threatening water security as the region moves towards “peak water” by mid-century, according to a
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David Szalay is a quiet man, seemingly comfortable with solitude and silence, whose existence has been somewhat unsettled by winning the Booker Prize. As El País reports in its interview with the
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Drug shortages in public hospitals in Sri Lanka has been an endemic problem for decades and the reasons for this are many and varied. Political interference, bureaucratic ineptness, funding shortages, policy issues,
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Pakistan is home to a diverse mosaic of religious communities, including Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Kalash, Bahai, Buddhists, and Zoroastrians, all of whom coexist alongside the Muslim majority. From the very inception of
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo When General Shavendra Silva sat down with Ankit Chauhan, an Indian national and the founder and host of the Impact Stories podcast, the conversation quickly moved beyond
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For more than a century, the idea of replacing a failing human organ with one taken from an animal has hovered between medical ambition and science fiction. Now, advances in genetic engineering
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