Massive mirror onstage sheds new light on an old favorite, Chen Nan reports.

Students of realism, the dominant school of thought in international politics, consider the Melian Dialogue a good starting ...

Russia has supported secessionist regimes and meddled in the affairs of Syria and African countries, China has militarized ...

South Korean spy satellites recently detected a telltale sign of Chinese expansionism in the Yellow Sea: a new structure.

A violin handcrafted in 1714 by Antonio Stradivari, the famous Italian luthier, has been sold for $11.25 million by Boston’s ...

Elon Musk, who is doing much of the crushing, has said that he thinks about the fate of the Roman empire every day and ...

President of the United States Donald Trump relishes signing Executive Orders (EOs) and does it with an almighty royal flourish, obviously enjoying the exercise of great power. During his first ...

Usvatte-aratchi Two thoughtful short essays on schools and education appeared in The Island newspaper on January 20th and 21st. The first was written by Lokubandara Tillakaratne, and the second by ...

Over the past few weeks the new US president, Donald Trump, has repeatedly claimed that the United States should “take back” the Panama Canal and that it should ...

US President Donald Trump's new tariffs on steel promise to further complicate a strategic industry already destabilised by ...

The McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised import duties to nearly 50% on average, up from around 38% previously. As the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, McKinley argued that high tariffs were ...

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...