Some cities in the world are now home to many expat workers for being not only affordable but also because of their mesmerizing landscape, easy arrangements for residency permits, good weather, and facilities that would make the life of expats much easier. According to Mercer’s latest report, these are the 10 cheapest cities for expats to live in this year.

Lush, thick woodland and green tea fields coat the slopes of an idyllic valley, a slice of pastoral heaven near the Turkish president's familial home that will soon be gone. A government-friendly company plans to extract 20 million tons of stone from a quarry in the northeastern town of Ikizdere for one of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's latest development projects. The locals are rising up in protest, challenging the government and its priorities in a region dear to the powerful Turkish leader's heart. Critics argue that Turkey is sacrificing the ...

Moroccan singer Dunia Batma is known for her beautiful voice. But she's also known for sparking controversy, whether by her bizarre statements in interviews, or on social media. Lately, Dunia has been sharing more flesh on Instagram than she used to. The Moroccan star is parading her new surgically-enhanced body to her millions of followers on social media, in addition to the injected face with filler and botox. Check out Dunia Batma's latest bold appearances on Instagram.

Two star dancers from the Paris Opera seen performing in front of kids in shimmering costumes. as the are children seen watching from an intensive care unit. "We're going to do a promenade, an arabesque, a porte poisson," says Hugo Marchand, one of the dancers. His partner's name is Dorothee Gilbert. "We just came to say a little hello," he says as they depart, and the child gives a small wave of acknowledgement." he added. "We see how it lifts them out of their complicated daily lives," the dancer revealed.

The sky turns dark, and the air unbreathable, the wind blowing it towards the outpost. With flashing lasers, honking horns and choking smoke from burning tires, the latest tactics used by Palestinian protesters are dusk till dawn rallies to make life unbearable for Israeli settlers. Palestinians hold regular protests on Fridays, the weekly day of rest, against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, which stretches back to the Six-Day War of 1967. But in recent days, the residents of Beita -- a town of some 17,00 people south of Nablus ...

United Arab Emirates has introduced a system of long-term residence visas, known as the UAE Golden Residence, in 2019. The system allows foreigners to live, work and study in UAE without the need for a national sponsor and with 100% ownership of their business. These visas are issued for a period of 5 or 10 years and are automatically renewed if conditions apply. Here are some of the celebrities who were granter UAE Golden Visa.

The best gift you can give to your father on Father’s Day is spending quality time while you both indulge yourselves with entertaining activities. However, that doesn’t mean you cannot add to that combo a tangible and thoughtful gift. Here are 10 great ideas for Father’s Day gifts:

Around dawn, thousands of worshippers gathered at the church in Amhara, the second-largest region of Ethiopia. Saint Michael is one of the major saints in Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, a centuries-old faith at the heart of an ancient and proud civilization that has evolved into Africa's second-most populous nation. The devotees -- some bent over canes and others clutching children -- offered prayers to Saint Michael in a church bearing his name and topped with metal crosses and a soaring Ethiopian flag in the city of Bahir Dar. The crowd erupted ...

World Refugee Day is an international day organised every year on June 20 by the United Nations to show the strength and courage of people who have flown their home land and raise public awareness of the refugees issues and their human rights. The day was first celebrated on 20 June 2001, to recognize the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. According to the UNHCR collected data on the number of refugees across the world until 2021; 82.4 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced ...

The US and Russian presidents shook hands and smiled as they went in for talks at a plush 18th-century villa in the Swiss city of Geneva. However, though both sides said the tone of the meeting had been positive and constructive, the feeling was that it had been workmanlike rather than chummy. Biden had flown into Geneva the evening before and spent the night at the five-star Intercontinental Hotel. Putin jetted in just before the summit, his motorcade whisking him straight to the sumptuous La Grange venue. The even-handedness stretched ...

From live animals, dangerous materials and creepy artefacts, some travelers have really tried to test the limits on what they could pack in their suitcases. Here are 8 of the strangest things that travelers tried to smuggle: