A public clash between hardline Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and a prominent ultraconservative figure has exposed growing divisions within Iran's regime over how th…
I first saw Elizabeth Taylor in The VIPs, when I was a moony and impressionable teenager. There were nuances I surely missed, but the movie’s larger premise came through loud and …
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Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's grandson Johannes Volkmann spoke to DW about why Germany must continue to support Ukraine.
Our smorgasbord of sumptuous reviews this week includes Megan Nolan on Jon Ronson’s The Castle, Kasia Boddy on William Kennedy’s Albany Trilogy, Jonathan Dee on Kurt Andersen’s Th…
Archaeologists have unearthed an 11,000-year-old stone sculpture depicting a human figure sitting on the back of a leopard at Karahantepe, one of a group of prehistoric sites in s…
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Egypt in the coming days for talks with President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, the Egyptian presidency said on Tuesday. The two lea…
A roadmap to the fulfilled belonging on the other side of “the great aloneness which knows not what is far and what is near, nor what is small nor great.”
The lightweight luggage options that are stylish and practical in hot weather, from elevated totes to proper suitcases.
Floods and mudslides of unprecedented violence, brought on by the collapse of a high-altitude glacier, have buried villages and roads, killing at least 180 people and leaving more…
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says Iran will only reopen Strait of Hormuz if US accepts its conditions
A missile crash in the Soran Administration triggered a wildfire in a mountainous area overnight, with no casualties reported.