When Sotheby’s, the great auction house, hosted its first major retrospective of Saudi art last month in London, the Saudi ambassador was present and…

Erbil: The three blindfolded Kurdish men kneeling in yellow jumpsuits with their backs to the audience recalled the Baghdad trials of alleged Islamic…

After US President Joe Biden bowed to the inevitable and withdrew from the November 2024 US presidential campaign, there is mounting speculation that…

Public opinion polls on upcoming elections in Britain and France reveal a lot about the right of the far right in Europe. In Britain, the…

The mother of all war novels, to adapt a phrase from Saddam Hussein, must be War and Peace. But, just as the BBC’s Desert Island Discs gives every…

Global production of gold reached approximately 3,000 metric tonnes in 2023. China, Australia, Russia, Canada, and the United States were,…

For the first time in years, this year's Oscars season felt like it did before COVID-19, as several remarkable films competed for awards.Two of the…

In a momentous turn of events, Shehbaz Sharif — the seasoned politician and brother of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif — has ascended to the…

As global attention remains fixed on Israel's war on Gaza, a less-reported crisis is bubbling up at the other end of the Red Sea that could prove…

At 5:17 pm on 30 January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was shot three times on his way to a prayer meeting. He died instantly, aged 78.The assassin, Nathuram…