Nelson Mandela Day has become the backdrop for a wider debate in South Africa over the values the former president ...

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

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

Activist Bao Ngoc draws attention to plight of Palestinians in country where protest is tightly controlled.

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

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

A video of a woman clinging to a wall in fast-moving floodwaters, loosening her grip again and again to keep her dog from ...

"The information gathered by community health volunteers in high-risk counties, such as Turkana and Samburu, allows the ...

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 ...

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

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

Thani, a sweeping modernizer who seized power in 1995 and broke with tradition to hand it over to his son 18 years later, ...