Ian Birrell

The Burj Al Arab hotel, built on a man-made island jutting into the Persian Gulf, is famous for being designed like a billowing sail on one of the traditional local dhow boats.

Benjamin Netanyahu's self-serving actions are weakening his nation and making the world less safe

It always pays to follow money in politics

Farage’s personal approval ratings are sliding and his smirk slipping. Time for Labour to be bold

It is hard to think of a more grotesque example of state failure. A 15-year-old girl is taken into protective care to escape sexual exploitation in south Wales.

Israel has been placed on a United Nations blacklist of countries, terror groups and militia accused of using sexual violence as a weapon of torture in conflict zones. A report issued by secretary general António Guterres claimed to have verified 31...

Ebola is a very scary disease, the sort of nightmarish plague seen in a Hollywood disaster movie with gruesome symptoms and terrifying death rates. It starts with a fever and headache, confusingly similar to malaria or typhoid, but all too often ends...

Ebola is a very scary disease, the sort of nightmarish plague seen in a Hollywood disaster movie with gruesome symptoms and terrifying death rates.

Kemi Badenoch talks of treating everybody the same. She needs to wake up to reality

Ian Birrell: Westminster's dirty secret led us to the Iraq War and Brexit