Palash Ghosh

The crisis in Syria has already cost at least 30,000 lives and lasted more than 20 months.

Luxembourg is a landlocked nation of a little more than 500,000 people in a space about two-thirds the size of Rhode Island.

Silvio Berlusconi faces up to 15 years in prison if he is found guilty.

FBI officials claim Nafis moved to the country specifically to carry out terror attacks, not to pursue higher education

The leopard population in Nepal has climbed since the 1980s when the government initiated a program to regenerate degraded forest areas.

Attaullah organized the attack on Malala on behalf of the Taliban’s feared leader, Maulana Fazlullah.

Madagascar is a poor and politically unstable country heavily dependent of foreign aid, which dried up after a coup in March 2009.

Trump, Rodriguez and Bryant share many of the same qualities and are largely despised by a wide swath of the American public.

Marie Stopes, the British women’s rights activist that an abortion provider NGO is named after, was a great admirer of Hitler and Nazi-style eugenics.

The Dalits of India -- the word "dalit" means “oppressed” or “downtrodden" in Sanskrit -- are stuck at the very bottom of the caste hierarchy.

Backed by Iran, the Lebanese-based Hezbollah is one of Assad's few remaining allies.

Malala Yousufzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot by Taliban gunmen, has become a global icon.

Soccer matches in Serbia have attracted large numbers of thugs, hooligans and ultra-nationalists seeking a forum to vent their anger and frustrations.

Bilateral India-Australia trade currently amounts to $20-billion, and it's increasing at a rate of 20 percent annually.

I used to know a family that had striking parallels with a nation that no one in their right mind would want to emulate -- North Korea.

Kateri Tekakwitha was converted to Catholicism by Jesuit priests and spent much of her short, grim life struggling from the ravages of smallpox, including partial blindness.

The highest rates of obesity among women were recorded in the UK (23.9 percent), Malta (21.1 percent) and Latvia (20.9 percent).

Some 70 to 80 percent of the heroin distributed in Europe is Albanian.

Boris Johnson declared that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize should have been awarded to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher rather than to the European Union.

Tendulkar is widely regarded as the second-greatest batsman in history behind Sir Donald Bradman (an Australian).

Seventy-five years ago, under Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, as many as 20,000 Haitians were massacred.

Boris Johnson, who admires Maggie Thatcher, may one day become Britain's Prime Minister.

Protests against the shooting have mushroomed across Pakistan and have made Yousafzai a global icon.

Gabon has abruptly changed the state’s official language to English from French.

Pakistan police have made arrests in connection with the shooting of Malala Yousafzai.

French and British fishermen are fighting over a dwindling stock of fish.

Frederic Mitterand, former French culture minister, has survived a scandal that most prominent people could not.

Claiming they invented the pizza, Neapolitans are outraged that an Italian magazine said northerners make the best pizza.

National Security Minister of Trinidad and Tobago ordered police to stop publishing crime statistics.