The Island

Inserting the foot in your mouth

At a diplomatic reception held in Vienna in the 1960s, British Foreign Minister George Brown sat in his chair enjoying a ...

Gough Whitlam believed John Kerr’s wife played a key role in The Dismissal. Did she?

After The Dismissal, Gough Whitlam called John Kerr’s wife, gifted linguist Anne Kerr, ‘the Lady Macbeth of Yarralumla’. Who ...
Firstpost

Pakistan’s cosiness with US, China and Turkey aims to counter India in Indian Ocean

STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD In the immediate context, by virtue of the French Reunion Island’s location near the ... Sri Lanka’s Hambantota Port and Colombo Port City international financial hub all ...
Vir Sanghvi

A list of the best meals I ate outside the country this year

This is a companion list but it deals with the meals I ate outside the country. Dharshan Munidasa is Sri Lanka’s greatest chef with restaurants all over the world. And while I have eaten Dharshan’s ...
Space on MSN

Time-Lapse Of BepiColombo Spacecraft Flying By Mercury

Watch the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flyby the closest planet to the sun in this set of images captured. It was the 3rd ...

5 stages of grief: NYC real estate grapples with the reality of a Mamdani administration

After Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York City mayor, developers, landlords and brokers assess how his progressive housing ...