Opinion

Persia was the world’s first superpower. It existed about 600 years before Jesus Christ walked the earth and before the United States of America was even a thought.

Water is a basic human right, yet for many communities across South Africa and the world, access to safe and reliable water remains a daily struggle.

The humble platypus, a small creature which quietly swims in the rivers of eastern Australia, has found yet another way to amaze scientists.

Thailand's new parliament is set to elect Anutin Charnvirakul as prime minister, keeping the conservative in the top office after his party routed its election rivals with a nationalist campaign.

Hundreds of masked-up students queued to get vaccinated at the UK university campus at the heart of a deadly meningitis outbreak, as the number of cases rose to 20.