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
On Aug. 18, a three-judge bench of Pakistan’s Supreme Court, Justice Shahid Waheed, Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan, and Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim, ordered the transfer of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan from
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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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On the 20th of August, a woman named Manori Sallay wrote to the President of Sri Lanka for the second time to ask him not to let her husband die in his
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The question Europe thought it had settled is returning with unexpected force: should prostitution be abolished, regulated or treated as work? The debate is once again moving from feminist theory into the
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There is a certain comfort in the stories that empires tell about themselves. In these stories, capitalism appears as the natural flowering of European ingenuity – the product of reason, scientific discovery,
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The latest remarks by Israel’s Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have triggered international outrage, but they have also revived a more consequential question: how did views once associated with Israel’s radical political fringe
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US Ambassador Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, has urged Sri Lankan authorities to ensure the safety of the country’s Jewish community following reports of demonstrations targeting
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Sri Lanka could face what former president Ranil Wickremesinghe described as one of the country’s most severe economic battles if it fails to increase its foreign reserves to US$15 billion within the
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Meta, the technology group founded by Mark Zuckerberg, faces this week the most consequential trial in its history, as a federal court in Oakland, California, considers allegations over the impact of Facebook
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The death of Jason Arday, the former Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, has opened a deeply uncomfortable debate about race, academic standards, institutional responsibility and the increasingly
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Myanmar’s military government has verified nearly 309,000 displaced people in camps in Bangladesh as former residents of troubled Rakhine State, but repatriation will proceed only after security conditions improve in the region,
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More than 4,300 police officers have left the Sri Lanka Police service over a period of nearly seven years, according to figures released by Police Headquarters, as the department continues efforts to
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There are lies that depend on falsehood and collapse when confronted with evidence. And there are more durable contradictions: those built on principles that are true, admirable, even indispensable, but applied selectively
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Around 30 prisoners convicted of serious offences in Sweden are preparing to serve their sentences in Estonia, hundreds of kilometres from where they were tried. They will form the first group transferred
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The smartphone has turned even the bathroom into a place of digital escape, raising wider questions about attention, relationships and the ability to disconnect. For many people, controlling the amount of time
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