Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Yossi Mekelberg, Senior Consulting Fellow of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. Can Israel continue to define its future primarily through security and territorial control? Mekelberg challeng...

The 100m sprints are one of the highlights of any Games, but the 30,000-capacity Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium appeared to be only about one-quarter full on Friday night for the blue-riband events. Even the prospect of a women's pole vault gold for ...

Instead, he was pulled out of his class every day for several hours to learn German under a flagship programme meant to bring newcomers like him up to par with the national language. But an assessment has shown the programme -- long decried by crit...

Masha is among those taking extra precautions after nine women, including avid runner Elizabeth Moselakgomo, were found murdered in Johannesburg's East Rand in two months -- some of them partially naked and battered. "Our runner was brutally kille...

Traditional music and tearful relatives welcomed the 45-year-old when he returned home on Friday after spending weeks recovering at a hospital in Kathmandu. "Life is precious. Hundreds of people have died but I survived," the father of two told AFP...

The 100m sprints are one of the highlights of any Games, but the 30,000-capacity Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium appeared to be only about one-quarter full on Friday night for the blue-riband events. Even the prospect of a women's pole vault gold for ...

Traditional music and tearful relatives welcomed the 45-year-old when he returned home on Friday after spending weeks recovering at a hospital in Kathmandu. "Life is precious. Hundreds of people have died but I survived," the father of two told AFP...

Indonesia has been battling fires for weeks in parts of Borneo and Sumatra, sending suffocating haze across the islands and neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore. Fires are currently burning within habitats containing 52 percent of Borneo's orangutan...

Chen stormed to victory in a Games-record 11.06sec in Nagoya to showcase her potential. Chen, who turns 18 in December, called Friday's emphatic victory "the best present for my birthday". But the teenager does not want to stop there. "Now I am t...

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt urged people to stay home after almost 300 millimetres (11.8 inches) of rain fell, while Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said he was cutting short a trip to London to return. "The water keeps coming in. It's ...