The authoritarian president of ex-Soviet Tajikistan has approved a proposal to decriminalise libel. Emomali Rakhmon’s office said Wednesday that the offence will now be downgraded to a civil violation...

Syrian President Bashar Assad is quoted as saying he regrets “100%” that a Turkish jet was shot down after entering Syrian airspace last week...

People who fly Air Malta these days can see for themselves the results of a generational changeover that has so far gone unnoticed....

Spain became the first country to win three major football competitions in a row. Last Sunday, they crushed Italy to retain the European title they won four years ago...

A year ago today, Arriva took over the running of the bus transport system....

Islamist Mohammed Morsi became Egypt’s first freely elected president on Saturday, launching his four-year term with a potentially dangerous quest to wrest back from the military the full authority of his office....

All schools have closed their doors for a long summer break. Most of them will re-open in late September, while others stretch their holidays till early October....

That the ball has, at long last, been set rolling toward the country’s electoral reform is most welcome news, but there is still a lot more to be done, and urgently, over and above the first baby steps announced this week....

New York! New York!My last long stay in New York was in the summer of 1970 when my sister and brother-in-law, a medical doctor, were there and invited me to stay. ...

It is not the final Uefa President Michel Platini would have liked to see.While Spain – one of his favourites – did make it to tomorrow’s final of the Euro 2012 championsh...