2012 proved to be a year in which there has been a worsening of expectations, according to a prominent pollster....

High-ranking sources in Turkey's Foreign Ministry have denied reports that have surfaced on Dec. 31 that claimed four Turkish pilots...

Supreme court rules ban on Haneen Zoabi's candidacy for being on boat stormed by commandos is unconstitutional. An Israeli-Arab politician...

A senior Turkish government official lashed out Monday at plans by aFrench satirical newspaper to release a comic book biography of...

Inflation targeting has some obvious general advantages, and some potentially serious problems. The general advantages include focusing monetary policy directly...

  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed the people in Akcakale together with head of the Syrian opposition National...

Among those stars who performed in Istanbul were Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Leonard Cohen. Turkey's north-western province of Istanbul hosted world...

'Five years ago I lost 50lb doing Dancing With The Stars – I call it Dancing With The Starved!' People...

Pakistan provisionally unblocked access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube on Saturday after taking measures to filter blasphemous material and...

From history to fiction, politics to poetry, Guardian readers pick their favourite reads of 2012 Timothy Adès London My best new...