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A Sri Lankan tourist guide Ricky Costa was preparing for a typically easy Sunday ferrying backpackers between Colombo’s tea shops and beach bars in his canary-yellow rickshaw. Then the blasts began. The coordinated suicide bombings by Islamist militants at hotels and churches killed more than 250 people and sent...

The ensuing long-drawn Indian General Elections are just around the corner. Manifestos or not, the narratives in public meets and through the media are for all to see. Lets first take the party and alliance in power. There are four pillars to the BJP/NDA narrative. First, there is the...

He was president for only four years, but George H.W. Bush shaped U.S. history for decades, taking on tough jobs from Beijing to the CIA, ousting Iraqi forces from Kuwait, sealing a breakthrough budget deal that cost him an election and fathering a future president. He died on Friday...

Stan Lee, the legendary writer, editor and publisher of Marvel Comics whose fantabulous but flawed creations made him a real-life superhero to comic book lovers everywhere, has died. He was 95. Lee, who began his career in 1939 and created or co-created Black Panther, Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Mighty...

When cryptocurrency issuers want positive coverage for their virtual coins, they buy it. Self-proclaimed social media personalities charge thousands of dollars for video reviews. Research houses accept payments in the cryptocurrencies they are analyzing. Rating “experts” will grade anything positively, for a price. All this is common, according to...

A measure of British house prices hit a six-year low in November as the approach of Brexit put off buyers and sellers, according to a survey conducted by property valuers. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said its house price balance sank to -11 in November from -10...