Dec 15 : Sri Lanka’s economy grew 5.4 per cent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2025, official data showed on Monday, signaling a sustained recovery from the decade’s worst financial crisis in 2022.
The island nation’s economy had grown 4.9…

Dec 15 : Sri Lanka’s economy grew 5.4 per cent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2025, official data showed on Monday, signaling a sustained recovery from the decade’s worst financial crisis in 2022.
The island nation’s economy had grown 4.9…

JAKARTA, Dec 15 : Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast will increase its investment in Indonesia to up to $1 billion, its local unit chief executive told Reuters on Monday.
The statement came after VinFast Indonesia inaugurated its first…

SEOUL, Dec 15 : South Korea’s central bank and the national pension fund have agreed to extend their foreign exchange swap line to the end of 2026, a move aimed at stabilising the dollar-won market as the won hovers near the weakest level in 16…

In Kadugli, a besieged city in Sudan’s Kordofan region, escalating violence and worsening famine have left civilians trapped in a state of constant fear, according to testimonies gathered by AFP.
Two and a half years of war between the army and…

Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Badr Abdel-Aty, has reiterated Cairo’s firm rejection of any measures that would entrench the separation between the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank or undermine prospects for a…

Your birth certificate may show 65, but your brain might be functioning as if it were ten years younger — or older — depending on the experiences and habits that shape your daily life.
A team at the University of Florida reports that optimism,…

A three-tier gasoline pricing system, including sales at 50,000 rials per liter, took effect nationwide from the early hours of Saturday.
The move was followed by further devaluation of Iran’s rial, with the US dollar trading at a record high…

As a young medical student in 1975, I walked into a basement lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, to interview for a summer job.
It turned out to be the start of a lifelong affiliation – first as a trainee, then…

More than 20% of Americans will be diagnosed with mental illness in their lifetimes. They will, that is, experience conditions that influence the way they think, feel and act – and that may initially seem incompatible with the demands of…

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