2014-01-03

A humiliating and demoralising setback or a second chance at success; the debate over children repeating a year in school is complicated and emotive

It’s one of the viral rumours of the start of 2014: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is said to have executed his uncle by having him stripped and

Sharon was born Ariel Sheinermann, in 1928 in Palestine which was then under British mandate. His Belarusian parents had fled there from the pogroms

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, comatose since a 2006 stroke, is close to death as his health continues to decline, the head of the