I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. We had the same publisher, and through them he sent me ...

War amputees are a common sight in Odesa; I’ve had several rides from Bolt drivers with prosthetic limbs. The local athletes ...

Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force ...

Its funding structure meant that Cannes was originally described as a ‘state festival’; invitations were sent out by the ...

There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

In 2004, the House of Lords allowed the appeal of nine foreign nationals against their indefinite detention under the ...

Ouvidor 63 is an illegal but tolerated artist-led occupation of an office block in downtown São Paulo. There are perhaps two ...

Israel’s codename for its attack on Iran, launched last Friday, was Operation Rising Lion, a pointed reference ...

Crufts is the biggest dog show in the world with more than 24,000 toy, terrier, pastoral, hound, gundog, utility and working ...

The US has declared an uncertain and messy end to its attack on Iran. Trump announced a ceasefire some hours before ...

Can’t you ping elsewhere?’ The question, daubed on the twelve-foot green fences encircling much of Brockwell ...

The Canongate Wall is a feature of the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood, Edinburgh. Designed by Soraya ...