Iraq is seeing its longest period of stability in years, and Iraqis are confident that the country is going in the right direction. The question is whether voters will bring that optimism to the polls ...

Sleep is often seen as a universal human need. But research suggests that women not only sleep differently from men but also need more of it.DW spoke .

Should schoolchildren be better prepared for war and disasters? Germany's interior minister thinks so. Is it a matter of taking sensible precautions, or pure scaremongering? And how do other countries ...

Eyewitness accounts and satellite images of the besieged city of el-Fasher in Sudan's Darfur region paint a harrowing picture. DW News spoke with Kholood Khair, the founding director of the think tank ...

Palestinian authorities report more than 100 deaths in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip in the biggest threat to the ceasefire since it came into force. The Israeli military announced this ...