Alain Robert, the free climber dubbed the "French Spiderman", scaled a 48-storey skyscraper in Paris on Saturday, fulfilling a goal he had set for himself once he reached the age of 60.
Dressed in…
Lengthy power cuts in the Gaza Strip have melted stocks of ice cream, forcing shops to stop selling it just when a heatwave has boosted demand.
With summer temperatures hitting 34 degrees Celsius …
For as long as humans have existed, there have always been migration movements. The longing for new horizons has been in most of us.
People who consider leaving their birth country to move to a…
Weeks of baking drought across Europe have seen water levels in rivers and lakes fall to levels few can remember, exposing long-submerged treasures - and some unwanted hazards.
In Spain, suffering…
Stood on her hind legs to greet any prospective owner who might approach her glass-doored kennel, Harriet is a black English cocker spaniel abandoned as a deepening cost-of-living crisis pushes…
[caption id="attachment_55254345" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A young boy rests by empty USAID vegetable oil tins in the Dagahaley refugee camp which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee…
[caption id="attachment_55253109" align="aligncenter" width="5094"] Affectionate daughter giving flower bouquet to mother on Mother's Day[/caption] By Meredith C. Carroll* The idea of honoring…
[caption id="attachment_55231853" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Journalists and human right activists protest in front of the courthouse in Istanbul during the trial of two prominent…
[caption id="attachment_55227173" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A vivid shot of the oilfield development in Saudi Arabia's vast al-Rub al-Khali desert. It is facilities such as these…
The global crisis began as a banking crisis before it dominated all the aspects of economic life.There are several angles for understanding the way the GCC countries dealt with the crisis. The most…
The capital losses of the markets of the GCC countries at the beginning of the global economic crisis are estimated to be approximately $ 480 billion, or up to 50 per cent of their total. These…
Damascus and Tehran wanted invading US troops to get stuck in a 'new Vietnam' and set up an operations room headed by their top lieutenants to cause havoc, never-before-published documents show.
Channelling the heavyweights of Russia's past, the current president sees it as his job to "retake" territory he deems to be Russian. It is a fundamental part of who he is.
The pursuit of international legal avenues to hold Israel accountable for its crimes must continue, and Palestinians need to unite behind a shared vision for the future