Shares swung higher in Asia on Friday after a wobbly day of trading on Wall Street as investors awaited a U.S. government jobs report and kept an eye out for developments in China-U.S. trade talks. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 0.7% to 26,401.47, while the Nikkei 225 in Japan picked up...

Ask voters in this picturesque university town in eastern Scotland how they're voting in next week's election, and they’re likely to transition seamlessly from talking about which candidate they want to send to Parliament to discussing whether or not they want another bite at voting for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian storyteller, Rima al-Khattab, recounts in her first work, "Under the Olive Trees," the sorrow of the displaced in Syrian camps, their suffering and tears. The forty-two-story collection chronicles the stories of people who had left an impact on her. She narrates...

Syrian Kurdish mother Shara Sido says the news came to her via a messaging application. She received an image of a bullet-riddled corpse with the instruction: "Come collect your son." Sitting inside a modest house in the de-facto Syrian Kurdish capital of Qamishli, the displaced 65-year-old...