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The decision by Fifa, the world football body, comes three months after Iraq hosted its first international competition since the 2003 American invasion and curbs one of the few joys available to Iraqi civilians. The head office of the Iraqi...

And yet football survived regime change to become a rare unifying factor. A source of pride too; when the Iraq national team won the Asian Cup in 2007, congratulations flowed in from all parts of the world. Yet behind the...

Pinned inside his family’s Baghdad home while the opening ceremony from Turin was happening, Faisal couldn’t venture outside, couldn’t see friends, had no idea when the next explosion was coming...Adding to his anguish was this: He was almost part of...

Almost a year after Barack Obama ascended to the White House, many of his supporters are bemused...His environmental team is vandalising the vital Copenhagen conference by saying the US – the single biggest emitter of warming gases – will not...

Baha Musa, who was arrested by soldiers from the 1st Battalion the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment in 2003 during an arms search at the hotel where he worked, had collapsed and his breathing had stopped. During his detention he had been...

With the Asian Cup final rounds in Doha just 13 months away, India are planning to test their skills against the top grade teams in the continent. If everything goes right, Bob Houghton’s men are likely to take on Asian...

At the Mid-Orange Correctional Facility in Warwick, New York, prison inmates are training puppies to become service dogs for wounded American war veterans. The correctional facility hosted a graduation ceremony for its newest puppies to be paired with servicemen and...

The United Nations food agency has launched a school feeding programme in Iraq, providing some 172,000 children with a free daily snack to help boost attendance and learning in eight of the country’s poorest districts. Under the 1.6 million dollar...