What makes Japanese people Japanese?” That’s the question director Ema Ryan Yamazaki set out to explore in her ...

By Ian Austen The country’s new leaders had billed a two-day “national dialogue” in Damascus as the start of a process to build an inclusive government. But some who attended came away ...

2,772 years ago today, the Neo Babylonian king Nabonassar assumed the throne of the great city, which isn't necessarily good news in itself, but ...