Even in Bangladesh’s fluid political scene, Shah Mohammad Abu Zafar stands out for his frequent shifts in loyalty.

Lord Wallace of Tankerness, who has died aged 71, was a popular Liberal Democrat who served in coalitions with Labour at Holyrood – as Deputy First Minister – and with the Conservatives at Westminster ...

Joan Didion had it right when she complained of “that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of ...

The shah’s son and an ex-prime minister should team up to break the Islamic hierarchy and write a new constitution, argues ...

A persistent fear in Nigerian politics is the emergence of a single-party system or a sole presidential candidate. Despite ...

In her long political career, former prime minister Khaleda Zia never lost an election from any parliamentary seat ...

Day and night, the soldiers were always there. Amid the palm trees and banana groves of a verdant suburb in Uganda’s capital, ...

In just a few days, nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy exploded into a crackdown and bloodshed that blew past reported casualty figures of decades of previous demonstrations.

For years, UK politician Jeremy Thorpe's affair was a secret – but when his former lover Norman Scott blurted out the truth, ...

Born in Canada of poor Irish emigrants, Fr Coughlin began broadcasting sermons to counter the anti-Catholicism then rife in ...

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday dismissed a plea seeking student union elections at the University of ...

That is why news reports that, in the wake of the elections, Kampala was as silent as light, with the quiet and calm that a ...