There are today more than 650 million women suffering the direct consequences of child marriage. Global instability - war and ...

Sharjah’s Faya palaeolandscape has won Unesco World Heritage Status. The ancient desert in central Sharjah boasts one of the world’s oldest and most uninterrupted records of human presence, dating ...

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One of the UN Sustainable Development Goals aims to secure clean water and good sanitation for all by 2030, in recognition of ...

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It’s been six months since longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was toppled following a stunning rebel offensive that saw ...

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Islamic State (IS) militants attacked a village south of Mosul, killing several people including two journalists, even as ...

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More than 4,500 years ago, at the dawn of Egypt’s pyramid age, a man was laid to rest in a ceramic pot. He was then sealed ...

I SKIPPED the New York City primary last week because I assumed Cuomo had it in the bag with $30 million and a famous last ...