A young couple who were married a year ago had their first baby last week. The mother and baby were in perfect health and the father was over the moon with joy.

A few years ago, a group of visiting US senators who were given a talk by a Jordanian Cabinet minister, were surprised to discover that he was Christian.

At last, it has arrived. The final season of the TV show “Game of Thrones” (GOT) is screened for the delectation of about 1 billion viewers worldwide.

I remember clearly April 6, 1985, when my Sudanese colleagues rushed into my office to share with me the news that a military coup had overthrown Sudan’s incumbent leader Gaafar Nimeiri. I was not sure what would be the polite reaction: In principle, I believe little go

The past three weeks in Algeria were very interesting, not least because the events that unfolded did not produce anything that was not already familiar.It all started when the military, who control and largely constitute the government, nicknamed “generals in designer suits”, an

One of the marvels of the Internet age is that rarely a week goes by without someone inviting you to sign a petition supporting one cause or another.

Some time ago, I chanced to be in a taxi that was jostling its way through a traffic jam, when suddenly a motorist drew alongside us, lowered his window and said to the driver menacingly: “Don’t you know who I am? I can have you thrown in jail.

Once again, terror reared its ugly head, this time at two mosques in New Zealand.

As King Farouk of Egypt boarded his yacht to go into exile in 1952, he supposedly predicted that in 50 years there would be only five kings left in the world: the kings of spades, diamonds, hearts and clubs, and the king of England.Farouk was wrong about this, just as he was abou