Declan McVeigh

'The Prophet' by Lebanese literary rebel Kahlil Gibran is one of our writer's favourites

Pripyat, once a city of 50,000 people, lies abandoned

Injuries, players’ allegiance and other off-field distractions add to challenges in Euro 2020 bid with team seeking an upturn

To enrich your St Patrick’s Day, why not try out a mix of the old and the new – music from the Irish themselves and those inspired by Ireland

The city still bears the scars of the conflict

Some 22,000 Armenians fled to their ancestral homeland due to war in Syria

The capital's 2013-2014 protests pitted thousands of Ukrainians against the government and security forces

Avant-garde, dense, difficult, funny and mystifying – Beckett’s most famous work has intrigued, baffled and entertained millions of theatre goers since its first performance in 1953

We all know the numbers – a person is more likely to die slipping in the shower or from a bee sting than they are to meet their maker in a plane crash. But that doesn't make aviophobia any easier to overcome

We sit down with the Palestinian-Jordanian novelist to talk about her writing and why she’s worried about freedom of expression in the Arab world

The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is marking its independence, 35 years on

America’s love affair with true crime often increases a film’s chances of making a return on studios’ investment

How American artists have become politically vocal in the era of Trump

The world's largest operation of its kind closed its doors earlier this month ahead of a rebirth in a brand new location a few kilometres away

He may have been soundly beaten by Khabib Nurmagomedov, and his pre-match behaviour cross a number of lines, but the Irishman will still be very much in demand in the future