Exercise requirements, nutritional needs and injury risks fluctuate throughout every woman’s cycle. Now there is a simple way to track what is happening and why Women’s sport is on the rise. With bigger and better programmes...

The demonstration was planned for 4pm on 15 April, a warm Sunday afternoon in the somnolent Nigerien capital. The protesters had two main complaints: rising taxes and the fact that, in recent years, some of the...

When Caitlin Dowe-Sandes and her husband, Samuel, first moved to Marrakech 12 years ago, they lived in an 18th-century house that could only be accessed via a mosque. “We wanted to be in the medina,” says...

Former Australian archbishop Philip Wilson was met by outraged victims as he left the courthouse with no jail time. Wilson’s conviction was a landmark ruling in Australia that could affect other cases around the country. An...

Swedish police have described the arson attacks on cars as “organized and prepared.” They come amid growing concern over violence, which could benefit Sweden’s anti-immigration Social Democrats in the upcoming election. Groups of youths in Sweden...

It is in Germany’s interest for Turkey to be “economically prosperous,” said Chancellor Angela Merkel. But she warned this couldn’t be at the expense of state interventions, as the Turkish lira continues to drop. German Chancellor...

Recent weeks have brought a number of stories suggesting intensified contact between politicians from the Balkans and the American far right. They follow meetings between the former (and possibly current) Trump strategist Steve Bannon and Bosnian Serb Prime...

Montenegro’s prospects of joining the European Union and illegal migration are expected to be on the table at Dusko Markovic’s first meeting as premier with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic will be hosted...

The recent intensive exchange of statements about border ‘corrections’ between Serbia and Kosovo will affect the popularity of both presidents, analysts believe. Emilija Brkic from the the Belgrade-based Centre for Free Elections and Democracy, CeSid, told...

International and domestic media watchdogs have accused the government and the opposition of sneaking in legal changes that will further curb press freedom and distort the media market in Macedonia. Macedonia’s government and the opposition have...