Confidence in Britain’s housing market has sunk to its lowest level for more than 30 years, figures to be published today will reveal, as property prices continue to fall and mortgage lenders restrict home loan finance. The Royal Institute of...

The dance party in Atheer Jassem Al-Othman’s living room was in full swing. The guests - about two dozen girls in their late teens - had arrived, and Othman and her mother were passing around cups of sweet tea and dishes of dates. About half the...

Nigeria’s film industry was in the spotlight at the just concluded Zuma Film Festival in Abuja. The Nigerian film industry has grown rapidly to become the third largest in the world, after that of the United States and India. From the Nigerian...

Israel faced concerted Arab and international demands to freeze all settlement activity in the West Bank and ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza yesterday as the “Quartet” of Middle East peacemakers took stock of a deteriorating situation...

Myth one: Organic farming is good for the environment The study of Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) for the UK, sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, should concern anyone who buys organic. It shows that milk and dairy...

According to the finance ministry, the expanded coalition needs an extra £125 million a month for nine new departments, in addition to the soaring cost of paying for its 93 ministers and their perks. The new government is a result of bitterly...

The French are more miserable than at any time since records began, a new survey has revealed. Soaring inflation, unemployment and widespread dis-satisfaction with their daily lives have plunged the nation to historic low of gloominess, researchers...

Kajbar is a tiny village on the river Nile, selected by Sudan as the site for a $200m (£100m) dam which will flood dozens of surrounding villages. In theory, hydroelectric power will be the first stage of a drive towards a more industrialized state,...

German police have carried out a series of raids targeting homes and cultural associations believed to be used to spread extremist material. The raids, which took place in several areas, including Bonn and Berlin, were linked to nine suspected...

Australia, already the world’s largest island, has just become substantially larger. A United Nations commission has ruled that the country can expand its continental shelf by nearly a million square miles. That gives Australia, which has a...