Energy minister Kanchana Wijesekera said the state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corporation was struggling to finance oil imports, while consumption had shot up due to shortages of electricity and liquefied petroleum gas. "We have no choice but to register...

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Richard Marles, whose centre-left government came to power in May, held talks for over an hour with China's Wei Fenghe on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore. Marles described the meeting as "an important first st...

Thirteen-year-old Anne Frank began keeping her now-famous diary on June 12, 1942. She would spend a little more than two years confiding in its pages, sharing stories from daily life, observations, and hopes for the future from the cramped annex ...

Former world champion Zhang ducked away from a Jedrzejczyk onslaught, spun and connected flush to the head with the out-cold Pole falling face-first into the canvas after 2min 28sec of round two. "I am very happy for this fight. I told myself I wou...

His latest production, "Kunene and the King", opened with the Royal Shakespeare Company and played on London's West End. It's now resuming a South African tour that was interrupted by the pandemic's theatre closures. "In 2018, I had the idea that ...

But these are not ordinary beekeepers. Some of them are patients from the nearby psychiatric hospital, participating in a two-decade project combining therapy with professional fulfilment. The social cooperative in Leros, housed in a former barrack...

France goes to the polls on Sunday in the first of two rounds of parliamentary elections on June 12 and 19. Freshly reelected President Emmanuel Macron looks to win an all-important majority but is confronted with the possibility of a strong showin...

China will "fight to the very end" to stop Taiwanese independence, the country's defence minister vowed Sunday, stoking already soaring tensions with the United States over the island.

"Morning your honour," the clerk said in English to the British judge, beginning another day at Her Majesty's Court in Waterloo Road, Dhekelia. In this part of Cyprus, a former British colony, Britain is still in charge and Cypriots appear before t...

The Argentine artist Sofia Crespo, who created the works with the help of artificial intelligence, is part of the "generative art" movement, where humans create rules for computers which then use algorithms to generate new forms, ideas and patterns....

The Blues, who will host the decider, scraped through with a tense 20-19 semi-final win against the ACT Brumbies in Auckland on Saturday, a day after the Crusaders' torrid 20-7 victory over the Waikato Chiefs. "There's everything to play for so you...

Hit hard by Covid, Turkey's tourism sector could get a shot in the arm from the revenue generated at Galataport, which opened in 2021 -- a year later than planned due to the pandemic. The port could also provide a boost to an economy that has been ...

It was the latest salvo in a growing war of words between the superpowers over the self-ruled, democratic island, which Beijing views as part of its territory awaiting reunification. Frequent Chinese aerial incursions near Taiwan have raised the di...

With its first ministerial meeting in years, WTO faces pressure to finally eke out long-sought trade deals and show unity amid the still raging pandemic and an impending global hunger crisis. Top of the agenda as the four-day meeting kicks off is...