Bayer is to buy UK-based KaNDy Therapeutics in a deal worth more than $800 million, adding the biotech’s menopause drug to its women’s health pipeline. Bayer will pay $425 million up front and ...

Sri Lanka, April 30 -- Speaker Dr. Jagath Wickramaratne stated that a comprehensive audit had been conducted on the financial management of the eighth and ninth Parliaments and the Auditor General ...

Please note that the submission deadline has been moved to 14 April 2026. To be considered for the scholarship, in addition to submitting your application to Queen Mary University of London, you must ...

As we look forward to celebrating the bicentennial of the “Star-Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key, I have to admit, with deep shame and embarrassment, that until I left England and went to college ...

The British Council is preparing to shed hundreds of jobs and scale back operations across Europe as the fallout from Keir Starmer’s aid cuts collides with years of financial strain at one of the U.K.

A Texas influencer is behind bars, charged with sexually assaulting a “very young child” and filming the abuse, according to court documents shared with Us Weekly. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The British Council is in “real financial peril” and “selling everything” it can to survive, its chief ...

The Kandy Night Market, launched under the theme “Kandy Breeze Night Fest”, will commence today (13), announced Central Province Governor Prof. S.B.S. Abhayakoon. The event is aimed at attracting both ...

First, you have to understand the difference between England and Britain (and the UK, while we’re at it). Because England is part of Great Britain, everything English is technically also British, but ...

Exclusive: Council has been asked to submit plans for the same funding or a cut of 2% ahead of spending review Ministers have asked the British Council to draw up spending plans that would force it to ...

Can the British Council be saved? CEO Scott McDonald on an imperilled institution. By Jason Cowley The British Council was founded in 1934 as fascism was rising across Europe. It opened its first four ...

Boarding the Kandy to Ella train is a bun fight I hadn’t envisaged. A dog has strayed into the station hangar and is tugging on a sari, leading to shrieks from a group of local women as passengers ...