About 25 years ago, I spent a memorable afternoon in London with Michael Young, the author of the strange 1958 dystopian novel in the form of a dissertation calledThe Rise of the Meritocracy, which…

A wave of protests swept acrossIranlast week. The government had abruptly hiked gas prices in order to offset its budget deficit at a time of high inflation and negative economic growth. Angry…

Lionel Messi was born to Jorge Messi and Celia Cuccittini in Rosario, Argentina. His father was a factory steel worker and his mother was employed as a part-time cleaner. Messi started…

Turkish troops invaded northern Syria after President Trump moved U.S. forces out of their way. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says he wantsto create a “safe zone”for Syrian refugees - not…

Born in 1989 in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Taylor Swift is country singer turned pop diva and a platinum-selling music superstar. Her grandmother had been a professional opera singer, and…

Dinais a highly experienced teacherwho has been practising and studying yoga for 25 years and teaching for 23 years. She was very fortunate to learn directly from Mr Iyengar and other world-renown…

Therun-up to the past three major democratic events in the UK have been targeted by terrorists who saw it as an opportune time to act. One week before the June 2016 referendum on Britain’s membership…

* Al Dakn starred in 233 films throughout his career, 33 of those were in the 1950s, 78 in the 1960s, 92 in the 1970s and finally 30 films in the 1980s. * President Nasser gave him the First…

WHAT’S IN A NAME? AN ENTIRE SOAP OPERA, APPARENTLY. I have always had a problem with the way popular culture has treated the reputation of the most famous of all the pharaohs. It simply lacks…

Every culture has a myriad of folktales that have been passed down from one generation to the next, mostly through oration. Nevertheless, as writing became a more widely used tool…