It was the hopeful first spring of a new millennium, and yet an almighty stench from the previous one lingered. That May, in ...

THE Sykes-Picot Agreement was the final nail in the coffin of the Ottoman Empire. The Balfour Declaration then marked the ...

Human rights organisations have expressed alarm at possible US plans to send a group of migrants from Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines to Libya on a military flight. They have pointed to the ...

On the wall of Dr Jim Swire and his wife’s bedroom hangs a painting of their daughter, Flora. She’s smiling, dressed in white ...

Jolani was a prisoner in Camp Bucca, the US prison in Iraq, for several years until released in 2011, ‘coincidentally’ at the ...

Nairobi City Thunder are buoyant ahead of the 2025 Basketball Africa League (BAL) Nile Conference that begins on Sunday at the BK Arena in Kigali, Rwanda.

Sometimes, as Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes knows full well, just one solitary goal can be enough to secure yourself a place in the ...

Libyan officials say clashes between heavily armed militias rocked the Libyan capital, with gunfire and explosions heard across the city following the killing of a powerful warlord.

Armed clashes erupted on Monday (May 12, 2025) evening and gunfire has echoed in the city center and other parts of the Libyan capital Tripoli following reports that an armed group leader was ...

In Madeleine Thien's speculative fiction about a climate-ravaged future, 7-year-old Lina learns from past voyagers and other ...