The din of partisanship in Washington quieted briefly this weekend as figures across the political spectrum hailed the demise of ISIS leader Abu Bakr…

As world leaders gathered on Monday for the Climate Action Summit at theUN General Assembly, it is sadly clear that the prospect of rising global…

InAugust 2008, I visited a hospital roughly 100 miles outside the Zimbabwean capital,Harare. Hundreds of patients lay in overcrowded wards and on…

On the night ofAugust 17, as over 1,000 guests danced at a wedding celebration inDubaiCity, a hall inKabulnamed after the Afghan elite’s favorite…

As cars idled bumper to bumper on one of Hong Kong’s busiest highways, a gaggle of young people clad in black darted into traffic. Cars swerved…

Christened Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, he is known to the British public simply as “Boris”. Recognised by his trademark blonde,…

When I claimed recently that Jonathan Jones, the prolific art critic for The Guardian, used the same method as Boris Johnson…

When Andrea Leadsom first came to prominence in the wake of the referendum result, as a possible replacement for David Cameron, was I alone in…

A FRENCH ARTIST IN THE INFERNO? In the days of Queen Victoria, a traveller by the name of Gustave Doré came to witness the greatest city on the…

It has been 31 years since that bloody Friday which oversaw the diabolical massacre of Kurds living Halabja, one of the cities of Iraqi Kurdistan…