As South Africa grapples with inequality and division, Mandela Day has taken on new political significance.

An illegal Israeli outpost set up next to Umm al-Khair in West Bank, immediately separating villagers from their land.

A new military barrier in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley is cutting off Palestinian communities from their land.

Pets in Japan now outnumber children under 15 by more than two million, as falling births, smaller families and changing ...

Community health volunteers travel across remote northern Kenya to detect poliovirus before it can spread.

Flags will be flown at half-mast throughout the country for the duration of the period for the late Father Amir Sheikh Hamad ...

He took power in 1996 after staging a bloodless coup against his father, and went on to transform Qatar into the gas-rich ...

It is one of the more vivid markers of a demographic emergency that Japan's own prime minister has called the country's biggest problem ...

Every four years, as millions of football fans around the world turn their attention to the FIFA World Cup, a remarkable ...

Burnham’s bid cannot be challenged by fellow MPs, as he now has the support of almost the entire parliamentary party.

This is a ledger of that machine and the men who fed it. No both-sides-ism here, no polite equivocating. It's told from the ground up — from the family walking out of Lydda in July 1948 with a kettle ...

The leader had served from 1995 until his historic abdication in 2013, when he handed the throne to his fourth son, the ...