In Call the Midwife — the popular new BBC costume drama about midwives in post-World War II London just finishing its second season in the US and renewed for a third — it's Sister Monica Joan who steals the show, an elderly, aristocratic nun with a …

The event comes nearly two decades after the end of Croatia's war for independence from the former Yugoslavia, and after years of sometimes unpopular EU-mandated reforms. The country of some 4.4 million people becomes the second former Yugoslav state …

"Riyadh, Washington and London manage a conspiracy to undermine the Syrian currency by flooding Lebanon and Jordan with Syrian pounds," The west is also launching a financial war through sanctions that range from a ban on Syrian oil to prohibition of …

"Riyadh, Washington and London manage a conspiracy to undermine the Syrian currency by flooding Lebanon and Jordan with Syrian pounds," he said. He accused his government's opponents of launching a "financial war and a military campaign against it …

The author of a controversial book causing a stir in Hollywood for exposing collaboration between the major studios and Nazi Germany in the runup to the second world war has defended his claims to the Observer. Harvard scholar Ben … The book, The …

The decision, taken at an EU summit, rewards Belgrade for an April deal to improve relations with its former province of Kosovo, which broke away from Serbia in a 1998-99 guerrilla war. EU leaders also agreed Brussels should launch negotiations with …

The Hudson River once again plays host to this year's Macy's Independence Day firework display, but New Yorkers dwelling in more eastern locales need not fear. The city, as usual, is teeming with parties that promise stunning views of the display, as …

Of course it matters that one of the nation's representatives on its currency is a woman, and all the better that it be a woman who came out of provincial nowhere to make herself immortal by talent alone. She took a type of writing – the novel – that …

ZAGREB (Reuters) – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union on July 1, just over two decades after declaring independence from socialist Yugoslavia and being engulfed in war. The Adriatic coastal nation is in its fifth year of recession …