The prospect of artificial intelligence destroying humanity has become a prominent part of the technology industry’s public debate, but Harvard historian Jill Lepore argues that the more immediate danger lies elsewhere: the
After 16 years of legal battles, witness intimidation, and broken promises, the disappearance of Sri Lankan journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda remains unsolved. It is a sobering reminder of the impunity that still plagues
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A United Nations rights official has raised the alarm over a sharp rise in executions worldwide in 2025, driven largely by a handful of countries that have intensified capital punishment despite global
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Libyan security authorities have freed more than 200 migrants from what they described as a secret underground prison in the southeastern town of Kufra, uncovering what officials say were inhuman detention conditions
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Sri Lanka’s long-promised education reforms have stalled amid repeated delays, controversial procurement decisions, and a striking mismatch between massive spending and real-world progress. An audit report has exposed how more than five
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Sri Lanka has been thrown into a heated political and religious debate after President Anura Kumara Dissanayake claimed that visits to Buddhist religious shrines beyond the sacred Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi were
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A university degree is supposed to prove that someone has studied, researched and earned a place in the professional world. In Sri Lanka, that meaning is collapsing. The same culture that sees
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Smriti Irani is not only a popular figure in India but also well known in Sri Lanka. She became popular in Sri Lanka through the character “Tulsi” in the teledrama Mahagedara. From
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As Israel marks nearly two years since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, the country is confronting a mounting internal crisis: a dramatic rise in post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide among its
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Editorial That was not the first time the world witnessed something that should symbolise humanity’s finest ideals being warped into political theatre, and yet what we saw yesterday — in another term
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Oxford University has been accused of putting women’s safety at risk by withholding information about persistent sexual harassment allegations against a senior professor, Times UK reports. The university’s central administration allegedly refused
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In 2015, world leaders made a landmark commitment to end epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other communicable diseases by 2030, and to achieve universal health coverage and equitable access to medicines
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On 14 January, a few hours before the historic meeting in Washington between representatives from Greenland and Denmark and their U.S. counterparts, J. D. Vance and Marco Rubio, Denmark and several of
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Ai Weiwei, the 68-year-old Chinese dissident and globally renowned artist, has long been synonymous with defiance against the Chinese state. Yet in a recent interview with The Times UK, Ai offered a
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The protester, who descended after two hours on Thursday, told reporters that he had been unfairly detained and beaten by police. “My jaw hurts all over. I can’t eat or chew due
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Sri Lankan authorities on Thursday extradited two alleged organized criminals and a woman from Dubai as part of an ongoing investigation into money laundering and other serious crimes. The suspects arrived at
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