I N 1971 RICHARD NIXON, then America’s president, announced a “war on cancer”. Just two years earlier the Apollo programme ...

"25 Alive" by James Patterson is among the top 5 most-checked-out books in the Cincinnati Public Library System in June.

Last month’s war with Israel and the United States lasted only 12 days, but Iran is likely to feel its consequences for years ...

Shortly before Christmas 1938, with weeks of heavy snow carpeting the lands around her Highland home, the birdlike frame of an aristocratic lady sat down wearily at her piano and began to play.

One elderly man had been shot in the head in his living room. Another in his bedroom. The body of a woman lay in the street.

An Israeli strike hit the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing three people, injuring 10 others, and ...

Two people were killed and several injured in an Israeli strike on Gaza’s only Catholic church on Thursday, in an attack ...

Mass expulsions leave many facing uncertain future in Afghanistan amid poverty and harsh restrictions on women and girls ...

Bosniaks and Serbs are living side by side again in Srebrenica. They play football together, and their children go to the ...

A SHARP rise in the number of Afghan refugees returning from Iran and Pakistan, many of them women and children, has sparked ...

Catholic Church officials say strikes hit the Holy Family Church in northern Gaza on Thursday morning, injuring several people including the parish priest.

Survivors of the Al-Baqa Cafe bombing in Gaza, and the loved ones of the dead, share their stories of the Israeli attack.