It’s hard not to be emotional giving a cursory review to the outgoing year. 2015 proved to be one of the most dramatic in the recent history of humankind. Let's try to highlight some of the most interesting events on the eve of the coming year. Oil: why is it cheaper? During the past year, the...

Spain’s annual Christmas lottery brought real fortune for an unemployed Senegalese man who was rescued by the Spanish coastguard after making a risky journey from Morocco eight years ago on a packed wooden boat. The refugee won 400,000 euros ($437,000), according to the local media.  ...

There has been hectic information seeking by the Japanese government following reports that a Japanese freelance journalist is being held hostage in Syria and has been threatened with execution.   Yoshihide Suga, the Chief Cabinet Secretary informed of this on Thursday.   A countdown...

Quoting army chief of staff Lt. General Othman al-Ghanemi, Iraqi state television said on Wednesday that the government forces expect to dislodge Islamic State militants from the western Iraqi city of Ramadi within days.   This would be the second major successful attempt by government...

Five months after an American dentist caused an international furore by killing Cecil, a famed lion which lived in Zimbabwe, the US plans to extend its endangered species protection to lions in Africa.   Lions in southern and eastern Africa would be classified as threatened by the US...

In what constitutes the continent’s biggest wave of mass migration since the aftermath of the second world war, more than a million people have now reached Europe through irregular means in 2015, says that International Organization for Migration.   The IOM said that till 21 December,...

The Islamic State is seeking to establish a “distant caliphate” in Indonesia, “either directly or through surrogates”, believes the Australian attorney-general.   Isis “has identified Indonesia as a location of its ambitions”, said George Brandis, in comments that were made to the Australian...

Taking a tough stand against alleged corrupt practices, Fifa banned Sepp Blatter and the longtime Fifa president’s one-time heir apparent, Michel Platini from football for eight years.   While this is considered to a career ending blow for the former, it certainly would significantly delay...

Saudi initiates a new coalition to fight terrorism, while many countries form part of the member’s list as according to them Islam forbids the “destruction”. Saudi Arabia informed that thirty four countries are ready to create a new "Islamic military alliance" in an attempt to “fight terrorism”,...