The Netherlands wants UN peacekeepers to stay in southern Lebanon beyond the expiry of their mandate on December 31, a Dutch minister told The National on Wednesday. “I hope that …
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales,” Einstein reportedly told one mother who wished for her son to become a scientist. “If you want them to be ver…
In Australia, she wore a jellyfish-inspired outfit with a gigantic hat, a parasol, and a full-length veil. In Paris, she wore a sequinned gold dress that sparkled like the Eiffel …
On Tuesday, the World Food Programme said it had to halve the number of people it can feed in the West Bank, beginning this month. The UN agency attributed its decision to cut the…
“Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion,” the great painter Richard Diebenkorn counseled in his ten rules for beginni…
Amid escalating tensions with Russia, officials are taking the risk of a major blackout in Europe seriously.
At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, held Monday and Tuesday in Kyrgyzstan, Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed his opposition to American imperialism just weeks b…
Trump says US can hit Iran ‘anytime we want’ as Tehran says deadly strikes, including on wedding party, a war crime.
To protect its strategic interests in the Sahel region, Algiers sent an air unit made up of Sukhoi and Ilyushin aircraft to Niamey the day after an attempted coup. This move marks…
Israel Katz says ‘there is no real solution for Gaza’ without de-populating the territory. Israel is still working to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, Israeli Defence Mini…
The scandal surrounding Galliano marks one of the most significant falls from grace in modern fashion history.
Asian economies are racing to build up storage capacity to reduce their exposure to conflict in the Middle East.