Middle east

For centuries, this critical yet tiny city has sat at a crossroads of world trade, and has suffered under numerous conflicts to the present day

SOE IN BURMA

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

Today, the ocean liner is often considered a glamorous yet thoroughly outdated form of transport. While ships such as the RMS Titanic and the RMS Lusitania remain household names, their lesser-known c

Stephen Simmons says the British Embassy in Bangkok helped foster more than a century of excellent UK-Thai relations until Jack Straw and Boris Johnson came along to ...

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