Category: News

Dante is credited with helping create the Italian language by using the Tuscan vernacular of his time – rather than Latin – to write his masterpiece

From a seven-hour silent opera and productions of Verdi and Puccini influenced by Japanese Noh theatre, to collaborations with songwriters Tom Waits and Lady Gaga, Wilson has spent half a … Read More

Four of the six Palestinians who staged a Hollywood-style escape from an Israeli prison may be back behind bars, but in their home town they are being celebrated as heroes.

The deeply personal, black-and-white dramedy captures the late-1960s outbreak of Ulster’s violent ‘Troubles’ from the perspective of Buddy, a nine-year-old boy

Almost 1,400 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are to go on hunger strike in protest at their detention conditions since a jailbreak last week, the Palestinian Authority said Tuesday.

After Naftali Bennett became the first Israeli prime minister to visit Egypt in more than a decade, we look at the Jewish state’s wooing of the Arab world.

Hallyday parlayed the huge success from Gallic covers of US rock’n’roll, such as Blue Suede Shoes and C’est Le Mash Potatoes, into a long career in music, film and tabloid … Read More

Judge Tariq Bitar has issued a new subpoena to former PM Hassan Diab, to face questioning over the August 2020 Beirut port explosion

Moroccan authorities have dismantled a cell of Islamic State group-affiliated militants and arrested three suspects accused of plotting an assassination, security services said Tuesday.

Syria is still unsafe for the return of refugees a decade after its conflict began, U.N investigators have said