One month ago, Angel di Maria was an outcast on the Paris Saint-Germain substitutes' bench, but the striker was reborn in the Champions League demolition of Barcelona. Two goals in the 4-0 thrashing of Argentina teammate Lionel Messi's Barca saw birthday boy di Maria hit near perfection in a...

An Afghan woman whose husband cut off her ears said Thursday she was seeking donations for treatment abroad, as activists condemned the latest gruesome incident to highlight the abuse of women in the conservative country. Zarina, 23, was still hospitalised in the northern city of...

(New York Times)- “The age of the war correspondent as hero,” Phillip Knightley famously wrote in his book “The First Casualty,” “appears to be over.” According to Knightley, Vietnam was the high-water mark for the self-mythologizing and self-aggrandizing descendants of the war...

(Wall Street Journal)- Russia has reinforced its military presence on the ground in Aleppo with a police unit drawn largely from the Muslim-majority region of Chechnya, part of a bid to win hearts and minds in Syria. Recent video footage by a Russian-language news agency shows the...