The Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, has submitted a potentially explosive proposal for a lucrative, revamped Club World Cup, featuring top Premier League and European clubs and to be played every season. Uefa is understood to be fiercely opposed...

For Aghiad Malik, a refugee from Syria, blood had only ever symbolised one thing: death. “It was a nightmare, seeing red on the streets,” he says. “Even to think about blood was horrific.” But soon it...

If you’re looking for a study in contrasts, you could do worse than compare the two albums released this autumn with Marianne Faithfull’s name on the cover. The first is Come and Stay With Me, a collection...

  History repeats itself, observed Karl Marx, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. In the 1950s the “red scare” warned of communists sympathetic to the Soviet Union lurking around every corner of the US....

Still bleary-eyed after a night camped out in a rain-soaked town square, Miriam Carranza combed the knots out of her daughter’s hair and listed the many challenges of life back in Honduras: the low pay and...

The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has publicly torn down Saudi claims that the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in a fight in its Istanbul consulate, making fresh allegations that his “savage” murder was premeditated and calling...

Scientists have announced the discovery of what they described as “the oldest intact shipwreck” on the bottom of the Black Sea off the coast of Bulgaria. A team of British and Bulgarian scientists from the Black Sea...

Macedonia’s VMRO DPMNE dismissed one of its vice-presidents and ousted several other high-profile members in what some insiders see as a purge intended to further centralise the right-wing opposition party. At an extraordinary session of its central committee...

Croatian police said false information that the EU country would open its borders led to hundreds of migrants and refugees gathering at border crossings in Serbia and Bosnia, hoping to enter Croatia. Some 400 migrants and...

Në ditët e nxehta të verës, uji apo pijet e ndryshme shoqërohen me akull. Por, ndërsa ne e blejmë ujin për të mos konsumuar atë të rrjetit publik, rrezikojmë që mikrobet apo infeksionet t’i marrim nga...