From ancient kings who disciplined errant monks to modern political battles over Gnanasara Thera, Sri Lanka’s history raises an uncomfortable question: should the saffron robe shield its wearer from accountability? The controversy
by Luxman Tracy Borman’s The Stolen Crown is less a straightforward history than a psychological excavation of ambition, insecurity, and legitimacy in Tudor England. Borman, long celebrated for her archival precision and
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by Eric Lauren Johnson’s Margaret Beaufort is both a resurrection and a reckoning. It is a book that dares to reclaim one of English history’s most polarising matriarchs—“the mother of the king’s
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In 1906, archaeologists uncovered a remarkable wig belonging to an Egyptian woman named Merit while excavating her tomb alongside her husband, Kha, in Luxor, the ancient city of Thebes. The wig, made
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Scientists have uncovered the first member of a promising new class of antibiotics, and the discovery came as a surprise. The compound, called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, demonstrates strong activity against drug-resistant bacteria,
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Editor’s Note: The following interview was originally published in The Sunday Island, a Colombo-based weekly newspaper. What does it mean to claim that psychoanalysis is inherently feminist? How can the unconscious, that
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A week of brutal sectarian violence in Syria’s southern Sweida province in July effectively ended the presence of Bedouins in most Druze-majority areas, and months later, their path home remains unclear. The
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Seven families filed lawsuits against OpenAI on Thursday, claiming the company’s GPT-4o model was released before proper safety testing and safeguards were in place. Four of the lawsuits center on ChatGPT’s alleged
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The U.S.-UK technology deal announced in September 2025 promises to accelerate Britain’s AI sector, but critics warn it will happen at the expense of national tech sovereignty. It reflects the steady trend of U.S.
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A new era in human reproduction In a gleaming fertility clinic somewhere in California’s Silicon Valley, a doctor peers through a microscope at a translucent sphere—barely larger than a grain of sand.
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Social network Bluesky announced Friday that it has reached 40 million users and will soon begin testing a new “dislikes” feature aimed at improving personalization across its feeds. The move comes as
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For the past two decades, APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, has been reshaping the Asia-Pacific’s approach to growth. Since the 2011 Honolulu Leaders’ Declaration, APEC has placed “green growth” at the
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Editorial Asia’s glittering skylines tell a lie. Beneath the gleam of new money, towering tech empires and the rhetoric of “inclusive growth”, the continent is quietly eating itself alive. Oxfam’s report, An
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by Eric Piers Morgan’s Woke Is Dead reads like an obituary written by the accused at the funeral. It is brash, polemical, and intentionally blasphemous against the new secular religion of progressive
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by Durga Dr Gwen Adshead’s Four Questions About Violence is one of those deceptively calm titles that conceals a detonator. It’s a book written by a forensic psychiatrist who has spent decades
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Thailand’s Queen Sirikit, the Queen Mother and one of the nation’s most revered figures, passed away late Friday in Bangkok at the age of 93 after suffering from sepsis, the Bureau of
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