Argentines are flocking venues dotted around Buenos Aires to watch the events of the Youth Olympics. Thirty-two sports have been on show, including fencing, wrestling, sport climbing and break dancing - all played in

Filmmaker: Bashar Ghannam Nearly seven years after the death of Muammar Gaddafi, the British government apologised for handing over a Libyan dissident and his wife to Libya's intelligence in 2004, knowing that as an

BAGHDAD: Every Sunday in Iraq, along a strip of embankment on the Tigris River reserved for followers of the obscure and ancient Mandaean faith, worshippers bathe themselves in the waters to purify their souls.But

BAGHDAD: Every Sunday in Iraq, along a strip of embankment on the Tigris River reserved for followers of the obscure and ancient Mandaean faith, worshippers bathe themselves in the waters to purify their souls.But

Raqqa, Syria: All day, dinghies cross the Euphrates River to shuttle residents into the pulverised cityscape of Syria’s Raqqa, where bridges, homes, and schools remain gutted by the offensive against Daesh.Exactly a year has

Tunisia's tourism industry is back in business, having gone into decline following a series of attacks on tourists by armed groups in 2015. The government says it expects visitor numbers to hit a record

Rohingya refugee girls are being sold into forced labour to raise money for desperate families in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh, according to the United Nations' migration agency. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said

Vietnamese authorities have released dissident blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, also known under her pseudonym "Mother Mushroom". Quynh, 39, was freed from jail on Wednesday and put on a plane to the United States

The Sochi agreement on Idlib between Russia and Turkey was expected to come into effect on October 15. Fighters and heavy weapons should have been pulled out from a 15-20 kilometres demilitarised zone separating

World hunger is on the rise and that will be one of the main focuses when the UN agency for food and agriculture meets in Rome this week. The agency says the way the