A billionaire investor keen on buying TikTok's US operations has told the BBC he has been left in limbo as the latest deadline for the app's sale looms. The US has repeatedly delayed the date by which ...

Sri Lanka’s microfinance and money lending sector is poised for a major transformation with the introduction of the Microfinance and Credit Regulatory Authority Act 2025. This landmark legislation ...

Three generations of a family built their homes and lives in Sri Lanka’s highland tea country. The biggest storm in decades wiped out their hamlet in a landslide. Three generations of a family built ...

Netflix is kicking off 2026 with shows and movies featuring duos we can't look away from. First up is the new mystery series His & Hers starring Jon Bernthal and Tessa Thompson, where Bernthal plays a ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand teens’ use of social media, the internet and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. The Center conducted an online survey of 1,458 U.S.

Sri Lanka is struggling to recover from the devastating Cyclone Ditwah even as it was trying to rebuild from a debt crisis and political turmoil, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake told Newsweek in an ...

Fifteen years after Animal and Cannibal, Kesha is finally feeling glittery again. Now that her long legal battle with producer Dr. Luke is over, she’s ready to reembrace her career breakthrough, which ...

Rescue teams and volunteers have been struggling to assist millions of people affected by floods and landslides in parts of Asia, as the official death toll from the ongoing climate-fuelled disaster ...

COLOMBO: Heavy rains triggered fresh landslide warnings in Sri Lanka’s worst-affected central hills on Friday, as the death toll from last week’s Cyclone Ditwah jumped to 607. The National Building ...

MANILA – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is set to grant a one-time Service Recognition Incentive (SRI) to government workers, Malacañang said Friday. In a press briefing, Palace Press Officer ...

Sri Lanka’s coffee industry is entering a defining new chapter, fuelled by renewed cultivation, improved processing, and passionate homegrown brands determined to restore the island’s place on the ...

Officials estimate the damage runs into billions of dollars, a headache for the island nation just recovering from an economic crash. Officials estimate the damage runs into billions of dollars, a ...