Recent senate hearings to confirm Donald Trump’s cabinet picks brought into sharp contrast the candidate for US secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth, and the secretary of state, Marco Rubio.

Unfinished Business is the first instalment in Miles Franklin-winning writer Shankari Chandran’s thrilling new fictional series, bringing together murder, espionage and romance to explore Sri Lanka’s ...

Two small coal mines and a run-down European-style palace built in 1913 by its former zamindars outline Kashipur, a grimy village in West Bengal’s Purulia district. It is from here, in 1951, that ...