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
Nestlé has announced a recall of specific batches of its SMA infant formula and follow-on formula after identifying the potential presence of a toxin that could cause gastrointestinal illness, prompting warnings from
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I attended the funeral of legendary singer Deshamannya Kala Soori Latha Walpola today. I want to pen down how her famous song “Shrini Vidushitha Lanka Derene Sinha Danaya Lelede” (Lion flag flying
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Roger Berkowitz’s keynote at The PolyOpportunity Retreat, Garrison Institute, Hudson Valley, NY, April 13, 2025. This was first published in Beauty Shot It’s a real pleasure to be here. Bard College is
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Dr Federica Amati, head nutritionist at Imperial College London and nutrition lead at Zoe, has released a detailed guide for navigating the increasingly crowded aisles of ultra-processed foods (UPFs), highlighting which products
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Elon Musk’s company Neuralink will begin “high-volume production” of its brain-computer interface (BCI) devices and transition to fully automated surgical implantation in 2026, Musk announced Wednesday on the social media platform X.
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Tehran witnessed a series of tense developments as Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence conducted a nighttime raid at the dormitory of Shahid Beheshti University, arresting several students suspected of collaborating with foreign agencies
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Consumer technology is entering a new phase in which devices once used solely for entertainment are beginning to monitor the most intimate human signals: brain activity itself. A growing number of earbuds
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Editorial The New Year arrives with its familiar trick: a new number that politely suggests improvement without requiring it. Calendars change obediently; behaviour less so. Optimism is briefly reheated, promises are generously
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After its emergence from the Soviet collapse, the new Russia grappled with the complex issue of developing a national identity that could embrace the radical contradictions of Russia’s past and foster integration
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by Luxman It is an early twentieth-century work by Edward Gait, first published in 1926, shaped by the intellectual and imperial assumptions of its time. A History of Assam is not simply a regional
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The World in 2025 In 2025, the global civil aviation system was once again reminded of the inescapable reality that the skies, while governed by law and sustained by international cooperation, are
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South-east Asia has become the “ground zero” for the global online scamming industry, according to the UN, costing victims billions of US dollars each year. Scam operations are run by Chinese crime
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Elon Musk has alleged that taxpayer money is being routinely misused through so-called nonprofit organizations, claiming that politicians and bureaucrats are channeling public funds into entities that face little oversight and accountability.
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As companies sketch out plans for 2026, one message is becoming clear: they don’t intend to hire. According to reporting by the Wall Street Journal, large employers are preparing to hold their
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Top psychiatrists are increasingly raising alarms that extended use of artificial-intelligence chatbots may be linked to cases of psychosis, according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal. Over the past nine months,
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