(Daily Mail)- A 15-year-old Syrian schoolgirl has been given permission by the German authorities to marry the father of her baby in the latest example of migrant child brides. The authorities in Dusseldorf have decided it is acceptable for the girl to begin 'married life' with her...

 When Syria's war came to 73-year-old Joseph Mghazi's street in the Abbasiyeen neighborhood of Damascus, he ignored his neighbor's entreaties to halt his habitual streetside backgammon games. "We would sit and play backgammon as the shells were falling around us," he told AFP in the...

Just before midnight in a sleepy district of Beirut, dozens of Syrian refugees huddle in small groups around bulging suitcases, clutching their pinging cellphones and one-way tickets to Italy. "Torino! Pronto! Cappuccino!" They practise random Italian words in a schoolyard in the...

Four female suicide bombers blew themselves up near a bus station in northeastern Nigeria early Wednesday, killing two people, the country's disaster agency said. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said the blasts occurred at about 1:15 am (0015 GMT) in the Usmanti area on the...