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
Sri Lanka is not a country to be rushed, particularly in its southern reaches. That is the central impression conveyed by El País in its latest travel feature on the region: beyond
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A genetically modified pig kidney functioned in a human patient for 271 days before being removed and replaced with a human donor organ, marking the longest recorded survival of an animal-to-human kidney
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The Whole Picture On 4 September each year, the international community observes World Sexual Health Day, an occasion that invites reflection on one of the most intimate yet politically significant dimensions of
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The Indian Grant Housing Programme, implemented with the aim of providing permanent shelter and land ownership to the estate community in Sri Lanka who have lived extremely difficult and challenging lives in
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Anxiety, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder are usually treated as distinct psychiatric conditions, each with its own symptoms, diagnostic category and specialised therapy. But David Barlow, one of the most influential psychologists of
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Ever since childhood, I’ve wanted to be abducted by Aliens ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson I recently read the book “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter” (Simon Schuster:
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Migrant smuggling to Europe remains a lucrative illicit industry even as overall irregular migration has declined, exposing a persistent security challenge for European governments and a humanitarian danger for those attempting to
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For many parents, the first months with a newborn are among the happiest and most important periods of their lives. For Manuel*, they became a nightmare. In his mid-30s, living with his
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There are moments when the decline of a power can be measured in statistics, military setbacks or shifting alliances. And there are moments when something deeper seems to be happening — something
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What if the greatest political danger of artificial intelligence is not that machines become more powerful than humans, but that humans become increasingly unwilling to share the wealth those machines create? That
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Singapore is offering families more than €47,000 for each child under the age of 18 as part of a new package announced by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, in one of the city-state’s
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Through burial practice, it is believed that the living create, affirm, and transform social relationships with those who have passed. Interring the dead in settlements, sometimes even below house floors, makes ancestors
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by Luxman Aravind Sri Lanka’s latest controversy over Chabad Houses has become something far more revealing than a dispute over a religious centre in a tourist town. It is becoming a case
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Climate action must begin where its consequences are most immediate: within communities, among farming families, women, young people and others whose livelihoods depend directly on land and natural resources. That is the
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One of the best known and most honoured singers of Sri Lanka, Sangeetha Visharada Dr Nanda Malini — the artist who marked an entire epoch in the Sri Lankan art of song,
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