When Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, was growing up in Iran, the country was a liberal country. In his childhood, Khomeini was exposed to spirituality and had a ...
One hundred years ago this week, the U.S. enacted a sweeping immigration law that changed the course of history. The 1924 Immigration Act created a system of quotas for immigrants based on race ...
The dissident Iranian director, who fled Iran by foot after receiving an eight-year prison sentence, is attending the Cannes Film Festival to present his movie 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig.
From his days as a clerical student, to overseeing executions as part of the judiciary, Ebrahim Raisi’s life has been intimately tied with Iran’s tumultuous modern history. Yet after all that ...
The death of a nine year old boy from Newport from sepsis was "neglectful" , a coroner has concluded after an inquest that lasted a week. Dylan Cope from Newport was initially taken to the Grange ...
The sport came to Beto Gomez’s small Indigenous town nearly two decades ago. Despite some resistance back home, he is now the world’s only professional kite surfer with Wayuu roots. The sport ...
I Kissed a Boy made waves (and rainbows) as the first gay male dating show in the UK, bringing together ten contestants into the romantic setting of an Italian masseria. (An Italian farmhouse for ...