After supporting President Rouhani in the past two elections, Reformists are breaking with the president in public ways.

Former Rep. Buck McKeon, R-Calif., donated $1,000 to a key lawmaker the same day he lobbied his office on behalf of the Saudis — a common practice in Washington.

The lack of coordination between Israelis and Palestinians at Al-Aqsa Mosque is threatening to dial up tensions at the disputed site.

The sex scandal involving head of the Israeli Bar Association Effi Naveh is shaking all of Israeli society, generating mistrust against judges and their integrity.

Christians in Haifa demanded that the McJesus sculpture be removed from the Haifa Museum of Art, but they certainly did not ask for provocative Culture Minister Miri Regev to intervene.

The Egyptian Textile Museum’s latest exhibition, "God is Love," offers several rare early Coptic textiles just in time for Coptic Christmas.

Recent reports suggest that Israel has been leading a campaign in the Sinai Peninsula to stop arms smuggling to the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Prosecution launched a new service to protect children from abuse, which is likely to reduce violations against the rights of children.

Updates from the day six night session in MelbourneNovak Djokovic regains calm to see off ShapovalovAnd feel free to mail Tom with your thoughts 9.30am GMT Second set: Halep* 6-2, 5-3 Williams (*denotes server): Williams is just not able to consistently play at Halep’s level, there is still fight left in the veteran but the […]

Unreleased poll for group backing second referendum finds almost a third would be less likely to back partyA leaked poll commissioned by the pro-EU Best for Britain campaign suggests that voters would be less likely to back Labour if the party was committed to stopping Brexit.According to the poll, passed to the Guardian, almost a […]

Campaign group urges recognition for women affected by sexual violence of Korean troops and the children born as a resultTran Thi Ngai was 24 and alone at home in her village in Vietnam’s Phu Yen province when a South Korean soldier forced his way into the house and raped her.“He pulled me inside the room, […]

Even at 40, the Filipino senator is still one of the world’s best welterweights entering his title defense against Adrien BronerManny Pacquiao finds himself in a bit of an unusual spot entering Saturday’s welterweight showdown with the profane underachiever Adrien Broner on the Las Vegas strip.The Filipino senator, who celebrated his 40th birthday in December, […]

Everyone’s got their own way to treat themselves. Mine involves arguing about The SimpsonsWhen I was 17, I decided that I’d had enough of being heavier than most of my school friends, and promptly took the decision to limit myself to 1,000 calories a day. Not just that – I dragged the ancient, rickety exercise […]

How does a 21-year-old Nobel laureate adjust to student life – and what comes next for the world famous activist? Yousafzai explains why she was driven to tell the stories of other displaced girls• ‘I never thought I’d see land again’: read an extract from We Are Displaced“People have heard my story already,” says Malala […]

In this extract from We Are Displaced, 16-year-old Sabreen describes her journey from Yemen and onto an overcrowded fishing boat across the Mediterranean• Read an interview with Malala YousafzaiSabreen was 16 when she fled war-torn Yemen with the hope of reuniting with her sister Zaynab, 18, and her mother in America. Their mother had been […]

Gunfire and explosions in Nairobi, fast food at the White House, a great white shark off the coast of Oahu and the Australian Open tennis – the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists Continue reading...

Squalane oil has been my go-to for decades and I’m delighted it’s finally enjoying a big momentOne of the more gratifying trends in modern beauty has been a newfound appreciation for old-fashioned but highly effective ingredients that should never have fallen from favour. While companies were aggressively marketing newfangled, often unproven advances in technology, beauty […]

She juggles a global fashion brand, four children and one of the world’s most scrutinised marriages: how does the former Posh Spice keep the show on the road?Along an Edward Hopper-esque cobblestone street two blocks from the Hudson river, outside a Brooklyn warehouse that is now a photographic studio the size of a baseball field, […]