Laws that have driven smoking out of offices, restaurants, public transport and other public spaces have reduced exposure to second-hand smoke, but a global study suggests the problem remains far from resolved.
Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, who turned 50 last November, says he feels “almost two decades younger” and reflects on how reaching this milestone has shifted his outlook on life. The actor, known
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PwC has intensified oversight of its UK employees’ office attendance, introducing a dashboard that allows senior partners to track staff presence via pass swipes and laptop WiFi connections. The move, first reported
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A report published today by the UN Human Rights Office calls on Sri Lanka’s Government to seize the historic opportunity to break with entrenched impunity, implement transformative reforms, and deliver long-overdue justice and accountability
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by Our Correspondent in Washington DC Sri Lanka is grappling with a litany of serious human rights issues, according to the United States Department of State’s 2024 Country Report on Human Rights
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Grace Huckins recently covered OpenAI’s release of GPT-5, the company’s much-anticipated new flagship language model. While it offers improvements over earlier versions, Huckins concludes that GPT-5 is “above all else, a refined
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OpenAI’s recent launch of GPT-5 was widely anticipated as a significant stride towards artificial general intelligence (AGI), the kind of AI capable of performing any intellectual task a human can. CEO Sam
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Editorial Today, the thirteenth of August, we mark the nativity of Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, a man whose silhouette looms still across the fractured cartography of the twentieth century. Born on the
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A major new study tracking nearly 80,000 members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America has revealed that people who avoid meat may significantly reduce their risk of developing various cancers.
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The father of Altantuya Shaariibuu, the Mongolian woman murdered in a high-profile case involving associates of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, has described any attempt by Najib to stage a political
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On August 5, 2025, Martin Kerketta, the ‘supremo’ cum ‘area commander’ of the People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI), was killed during an encounter in the Changabadi Bantoli Forest area under Kamdara
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