Among the year's countless headlines, the following are the most-read stories by Ahram Online readers.

Some 70 countries that are home to half the world’s population held elections this year, and in many incumbents were punished ...

Incumbents also were defeated in Senegal, Ghana and Botswana, where voters ousted the party that had been in power for 58 ...

Every year, various publications reveal new "best places to retire abroad" lists. Providing snapshot overviews and gorgeous photos of top expat countries, these articles are wildly popular whether ...

A staggering number of 1.7 billion people around the world went to the polls in 2024. The global average voter turnout was 61 ...

To learn more about this icon of French history, architecture, and opulence, AD chatted with Mathieu da Vinha, director of ...

The list did not include the leaders of the UK, Germany, the US, France, Japan, and other large states unfriendly to Russia ...

Kenya's cost-of-living crisis, to martial law in South Korea. Here's a look at major protests that erupted across the globe ...

It is a surprising coda to the broadly anticlerical French Revolution—not to mention seemingly dissonant with contemporary ...

France's delayed 2025 budget bill will target a deficit of "slightly above 5%" in order to protect growth, the country's new ...