Tokyo opened a 15,000-seat swimming venue for the Olympic Games next year on Saturday, with a swimming star diagnosed with leukaemia last year demonstrating freestyle at the ceremony. The $542 million Aquatics Centre for swimming, diving and artistic swimming was completed in February,...

Through the financial support it provides to talented students from all over the world, Qatar Foundation breaks down barriers that can stand in the way of learning – and the best testament to what it makes possible comes from the aspiring change-makers that it benefits. The belief...

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has claimed that the Kurdish militias and administration in north-east Syria would not have released low-level former Daesh fighters without being pressured to do so by the United States. Speaking at a news briefing yesterday, ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova...

Two Turkish-French women were violently manhandled by the police last week in France’s Grand Est region.   Video and photos of the incident sparked outrage on social media, with some people accusing the French police of discrimination. One of the women, 22-year-old...