Germany (Bild)- Embedded between fields and meadows, in the neighborhood of the Elbe and Göhrde, it lies: a housing project that could go to school. The village of the future.   Here, in the romantic Wendland, twelve houses are currently being built on 2.3 hectares, and all should be...

An American journalist jailed for six months by Myanmar's military rulers said after his shock release that he battled to stay sane and feared his ordeal would not end, while insisting he should never have been detained. Danny Fenster -- handed an 11-year sentence last week for incitement,...

 The United Arab Emirates has banned travelers from several Middle Eastern countries from boarding flights to Belarus, cutting off one of the last major air routes for would-be migrants to a nation on the European Union’s eastern border. The decision reported by travel agencies in...

Mosul (Iraq) (AFP) – Iraqi wheat farmer Khamis Ahmad Abbas lost it all when his battle with drought forced him to abandon his land, pushing him into unemployment. Experts have warned that record low rainfall, compounded by climate change, are threatening social and economic disaster in...