The memorial in New York City at the site where the Twin Towers fell in the September 11 attacks 15 years ago straddles two worlds: one of the living and one of the dead.

This is Berlin’s summer of discontent. Exactly one year ago, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s principled decision to open Germany’s borders to refugees stranded in Hungary impressed millions of people around the world.

After eight years of dealing with America’s self-styled “Pacific president”, Asian leaders will soon have to work with a new administration.

Dear Mayo Clinic: I’m a 25-year-old woman, and I recently tore my ACL playing basketball. My doctor says I don’t need surgery and recommends physical rehabilitation instead.

In Lebanon today, all the symptoms of the Middle East’s current turmoil are visible. Newly arrived refugees from Syria and Iraq are joining Palestinian refugees who have long been here.

A cynical move is underway to promote a new, powerful, and troubling technology known as “gene drives” for use in conservation.

Haj is first an act of worship that we are obliged to fulfil if we are able. Its reward is the greatest that one can hope to attain: forgiveness and entrance into Paradise. However, the Haj in the end is not just an individual or self-centred ritual.

Let’s stop telling young people to find their passion and start telling them to find a job. The work you do in the world is not supposed to make a fulfilled individual; it’s supposed to make you an employed individual.

Almost 50mn children throughout the world have been “uprooted” from their homes by war, violence or persecution, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) said yesterday.

Proponents of gene drive technology say it eliminates the need for polluting pesticides, and could offer a more effective remedy against invasive species than any tool on hand

As the country gears up to get back to business after the summer, for those of us returning to Doha or arriving for the first time, the investment in roads, rail and physical infrastructure that will help keep modern Qatar moving is inescapable.

Temer’s government should focus on reducing waste in the private sector caused by other problems with the business environment