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He's back. Having kept a relatively low profile since being forced to step down as Italy's premier last year, Silvio Berlusconi, the bad boy of Italian politics, has decided...

As I write, we have just received news of what we believe to be the 29th Tibetan in the past month to set fire to themselves in protest at...

Despite concrete barricades and a heavy military presence in the Egyptian capital Cairo, opposition leaders say they will keep up the pressure on the president to cancel Saturday's constitutional...

HSBC has confirmed it is to pay US authorities $1.9bn (£1.2bn) in a settlement over money laundering, the largest paid in such a case. The UK-based bank was alleged...

Chancellor Merkel's cabinet on Thursday approved a measure to send Patriot air defense missiles to Turkey as part of a NATO mission to prevent violence from spilling over from across Syrian border. Once...

Gonzalo Alvarez, who had just arrived in Cancun for two weeks of revelry linked to a major milestone in the Mayan calendar, seemed reasonably cheerful for a man about...

Young Turkish painter İhsan Oturmak has been selected for the residence program of Cité Internationale des Arts.  Located in Paris, Cité Internationale des Arts gives 350 artists, whom it...

There are sixty important maladies of the spiritual heart. One of the malady is ostentation (riyâ). “Riyâ” means to present something in a manner opposite to its true nature....

Afghan women victims of violence are still being failed by the justice system, according to a new UN report. Although there had been some progress in implementing a 2009...

Palestinian President Abbas delivered a speech at Turkish parliament as part of a visit in Ankara. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delivered a speech at the Turkish parliament as part of a...