FOR A MAN who was believed to set the greatest store by divine guidance and to live his life according to the dictates of Eternal Heaven, Genghis Khan apparently had rather earthy preoccupations.

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s wife Sibel Tatar on Wednesday night issued a second condemnation of the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs by children ...

In the Sibillini Mountains of Italy, I have been rereading Buzzati’s Il deserto dei Tartari (‘The Desert of the Tartars’, translated into English as The Tartar Steppe). Written in 1938, this prescient ...