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Art on trial - a sculptor's arrest highlights new extremes for censorship in China

Jesus Christ stands at gunpoint, palms upturned, seven figures in a firing squad around him. The bronze riflemen are unmistakable in their likeness. They are Mao Zedong, the long-deceased dictator who founded the People's Republic of China, and presided over some of the most traumatic chapters in China's recent hist…

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Compliance without consequence

The financial fraud of a staggering amount of Rs 13.2 billion at NDB Bank is without precedent in Sri Lanka. It has sent shock waves throughout the industry and among investors. The possibility of recovery of the stolen funds seems to be very uncertain at this point of time.

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If we don’t lock up and treat the mentally ill, we’ll continue to pay a deadly price

Last week, in Nebraska, Noemi Guzman tried to kidnap a 3-year-old from Walmart. Horrific bodycam footage from the police shows her holding a knife over the boy, slashing him, before cops shot her dead. Two years prior, a judge let Guzman off for a raft of felony charges, including arson and assault, by reason of ins…

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Tim Tams and Oreos: The 12 grocery items Woolworths and ACCC will fight over in court

A family pack of Arnott’s Tim Tams, Oreos, laundry powder, dog bones and other items will be at the heart of Woolworths’ courtroom stand-off this week with Australia’s consumer watchdog, which has accused the retail giant of selling groceries through discounts that weren’t real.

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New petition asks High Court to freeze Gofman appointment as Mossad chief

A new High Court petition filed on Sunday seeks to block IDF Maj.-Gen. Roman Gofman’s appointment as the next head of the Mossad, arguing that serious flaws in both the vetting process and the underlying conduct attributed to him in the Ori Elmakayes affair should have disqualified him from one of Israel’s most sens…

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