The political career of Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s most recent military ruler who has died aged 79, was defined by its extremes. After seizing power in a 1999 coup, Musharraf went
When Antony Blinken landed at Ben Gurion airport on Monday he said he had arrived at a “pivotal moment”. By the end of his two-day visit, it is clear he
Driver Tharaa Ali takes her seat at the helm of a high-speed train ferrying pilgrims to Mecca, a beneficiary of conservative Saudi Arabia’s bid to employ its booming female workforce.
Dan Izzett has lived with leprosy’s effects on his body for 70 years, and has lost much to what he calls an “ancient, fascinating, very unkind disease”. The Zimbabwean former
There is hardly any person who has come to mega city Dhaka from a rural area but does not have a sweet memory of eating pitha, steamed or fried cake,
“Earlier I haven’t seen any automated single-needle sewing machine but now we are operating six types of multi-needle machines to make many innovative products,” said Najma Begum, a divorcee and
Myanmar’s military is producing a vast range of weapons to use against its own people thanks to supplies from companies in at least 13 countries, former top UN officials say.
The residents of six villages near the Sundarbans are literally living in fear for their lives as a hundred footprints of two tigers were spotted in Sonatala village of Bagerhat’s
The United Nations called Thursday for urgent funding to help 30 million children suffering from acute malnutrition “before it is too late” in countries being hammered by the food crisis.
In late October 2022, epidemiologists and infectious disease experts around the world began to notice an unsettling trend. As the epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explained in a Twitter thread, there was