All news on the topic: Middle East

Cristiano Ronaldo has insisted he is still motivated to perform at the top level having already enjoyed a career lasting two decades as a professional footballer

The rookie cook constantly reminds us his skills won’t be earning him a Michelin star any time soon, joking that he is going to 'boil the a***' off his dishes

Cristiano Ronaldo is staying in Saudi Arabia and wants other star players to join him but Diego Simeone has outlined why he could not join Atletico Madrid last year

Barcelona boss Xavi has lamented Manchester City blocking Joao Cancelo's loan switch to Camp Nou in favour of Bayern Munich while also discussing Lionel Messi's future

Lionel Messi will leave Paris Saint-Germain this summer transfer window with Barcelona and Saudi Arabian club Al Hilal both looking to secure his signing as a free agent

Al-Nassr were beaten to the Saudi Pro League title in Cristiano Ronaldo's first season, but the Portugal star's move to the gulf state was about more than just this season's outcome

The event management agency Sela is in talks over becoming the club's shirt sponsor next season, according to reports, but its own website says that its owner is the Public Investment Fund in charge at St James' Park

Canadian entrepreneur Michael Henderson plans to erect a 274-metre (900ft) sphere in Dubai which will replicate walking on the moon as part of his ambitious £4billion project

Gopi Hinduja and his family are the richest people in the UK with a jaw-dropping fortune of £35 billion

The Paris Saint-Germain superstar has picked up yet another individual award as Lionel Messi's sensational 2023 , which included a World Cup win, is celebrated

Lionel Messi is not part of the Paris Saint-Germain squad who will travel to Troyes this weekend in Ligue 1 despite issuing an apology for an unsanctioned Saudi Arabia trip

Lionel Messi took an unauthorised trip to Saudi Arabia on Monday meaning that he missed PSG training and was subsequently handed a two-week suspension by the club

As many as 120 SAS and a company of paratroopers are reportedly ready to extract UK citizens and embassy staff from the increasingly unstable north-african country

The Pentagon has shared footage of a mysterious metal sphere UFO as experts warn of the risk of 'unintended crossfire' which could be 'devastating' in a war zone situation

Recently declassified footage shot by a US Reaper drone in the Middle East shows a strange, spherical object flying in and out of frame which is unidentified as of yet

British astronomers who work for HM Nautical Almanac Office, a Government agency providing data for police, armed forces, diary manufacturers and others, have forecast the likelihood of seeing the moon this year

Former eight-weight world champion Pacquiao has been eyeing up a return to the ring against controversial Brit Benn this summer in Abu Dhabi, much to the chagrin of many in the sport

The footballer, who played in the top flight in his home country, suffered third-degree burns after protesting and despite the best efforts of doctors, they were unable to save him

Hibatullah Akhundzada hardly ever appears in public and surrounds himself with other religious scholars in Afghanistan who are opposed to education and work for women

Mahvash Sabet Shahriari was brutally battered during interrogation after being sentenced to 10 years in Tehran's notorious Evin jail - which also housed freed Brit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - for anti-government protests

The Nabataens, who were skilled merchants and traders, could read and write but, unlike other ancient civilisations such as Egyptians, they only left a few scraps of written testimonies

The British woman had been running by the Lebanese capital's waterfront when the man ambushed her in front a children's amusement centre in Beirut

George Piro was the FBI agent hand selected to interrogate Saddam Hussein and spent seven months talking to the Iraqi dictator following the west's bloody invasion of the Middle East

Unified world heavyweight champion Usyk had agreed to a monster $60million deal for a fight with Fury in Saudi Arabia, but would have taken considerably less for a bout in the UK

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu wants to give his government almost total power over who is appointed to the courts and hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been taking to the streets to protest changes