Two workers in the Middle East talk about friends they’ve made at the women’s gym and why it’s a good place to invest their time.

A local partner cares for 5,500 orphans in the Near East, compromising personal health and safety for the children’s sake.

Workers from the Middle East North Africa Area share how they use strategic prayer to prepare the way for God to move across the region.

Five years of displacement has taken its toll on Syrian refugees living in Lebanon, but many have met Jesus and discovered eternal hope.

Believers bring a positive identity message to teenage girls living in a remote village.

Workers with support roles in OM's Near East Field -Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Iraq - find opportunities to engage locals and share truth with friends.

Amidst ongoing unrest, OM supports IDP communities by sponsoring food distribution through local partners.

The OM Near East Field church planting school prepares students to cross cultural and religious boundaries.

One missionary speaks about the challenges of taking someone with a different background into your home.

When a small team decides to focus more on church planting, God brings people into their lives in unusual ways.

Eighty Arab believers attend training to learn how to share the Bible with their Muslim neighbours.

Global crises provide unprecedented opportunities for OM workers to share truth with least-reached people from Syria, Somalia and Sudan.

Women in the Near East pray and prepare Bible stories to share with local friends through creative opportunities.

Driven apart by the Syrian civil war, an extended family experiences miraculous healing and dreams and believes in Jesus.

By paying rent for a small school run by a partner church, OM provides education and biblical input to children of displaced families.

Since the Syrian war began, OM workers have served alongside locals, including Muslim background believers, to spread hope amongst desperate people.

Two workers share their motivation to keep going when they encounter disappointments in ministry.

Children with disabilities blossom through a community-based rehabilitation programme and teach the women who work with them about unconditional love.

OM workers from Latin America discuss the similarities and differences to Arab culture.

A children’s music programme helps Syrian mothers identify their skills and how to use them for Christ, even before they become believers.

An OM worker shares the gospel with a Syrian in northern Iraq, surprisingly reconnecting with the man months later at his baptism in Sweden.

OM Near East Field's internship school trains Arab Christians and others called to reach the Muslims of Iraq.

OM workers share the Bible with Muslims in the Near East.

Syrian Kurdish refugee families profess faith in Jesus Christ.

OM Near East launches a one-year Arab internship programme to equip local believers for long-term ministry among the least reached.

A Bible app provides access to God's Word for thousands of Kurds.

Ofentse Mokwena discusses what's needed for opening transport markets and unbundling transport SOEs.

Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize has won such praise for his handling of the coronavirus crisis that he’s being touted as a possible successor to President Cyril Ramaphosa.

HE has created elegant fine-dining dishes in some of the most reputable restaurants in Scotland, but chef Paul Tamburrini he is now facing his harshest critics – his family.

A call has gone out for help to identify thousands of mystery Scottish scenes, finds Sandra Dick.

Travel and tourism have become casualties of coronavirus lockdown, but one travel writer has found a new way to highlight Scotland's beauty, writes Deborah Anderson

The Chaotic Scots Traveller Kay Gillespie delivers her Top 10 places She's dreaming about in Scotland

By James Campbell

NEW YORK (AP) — Andre Harrell, the Uptown Records founder who shaped the sound of hip hop and R&B in the late 80s and 90s with acts such as Mary J Blige and Heavy D, and who also launched the career of mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, has died. He was 59.Diddy's REVOLT company confirmed the death Saturday but no other details were immediately available. Harrell was the vice chairman at REVOLT.

REACTION poured in following the death of rock 'n' roll pioneer Little Richard, who died yesterday at age 87.

A long-time resident of Trench Town, Donnette Dowe has seen the trials of urban life up-close and personal. Like many inner-city Jamaican communities, crime, teen pregnancy and poverty are rife.The 50-year-old mother of five children (ages 26, 24, 21, 16 and 12) is director and tour manager for Trench Town Culture Yard, a renovated tenement which was once home to Bob Marley and his family.

War is the great distraction. Right or wrong, foolish or wise, it suspends all the usual political and economic rules. Suddenly a chancellor who has spent five and a half years telling us “there is no money” can find ready billions for warfare.

If the bookies are right, Jeremy Corbyn is the political equivalent of a nice slice of wholemeal, browning fast. He’s toast. Smart money, supposedly superior to any opinion poll, says a Labour leader elected by a landslide will be gone within a year of his triumph.

IN dark times, begin by giving the Prime Minister a bit of credit. Unlike a certain predecessor, David Cameron has accepted that there needs to be an honest, public argument over the case for an escalated war in the Middle East.

War, then. Another war. Still another war begun because the last guaranteed-conclusive war produced consequences that made one more shot in the dark inevitable. Intellectual and strategic failure is on a production line.

Glasgow City Council has a keen sense, it seems, of what is or might be controversial. When the rest of us imagine that a handful of words to mark a long-distant historical event could never be more than anodyne, the council is alert to the affliction of controversy. It is a condition to be avoided at all costs.

IT isn’t often that a rousing speech on socialist internationalism is rewarded with a full transcript in the Spectator. In fact, it never happens. The Tory Party’s newsletter is funny like that.

If modern lives were measured in unprecedented weather events, we would all be 200 years old. Defences against floods that were supposed to happen every other century are being overtopped in the space of a few winters. The victims surveying ruined homes and businesses are ageing fast.

Award-winning Herald and Sunday Herald columnist Ian Bell has died at the age of 59.

Ian Bell, the award-winning Herald and Sunday Herald writer and columnist, died last week aged 59. Here are excerpts from 10 of his finest pieces of writing.

If modern lives were measured in unprecedented weather events, we would all be 200 years old. Defences against floods that were supposed to happen every other century are being overtopped in the space of a few winters. The victims surveying ruined homes and businesses are ageing fast.

THE Treasury has bombarded us all week with facts, figures and forecasts making the case for the UK to remain in the European Union. Its big report, on Monday, warned Brexit would tip the country into a year-long recession, resulting in up to 820,000 job losses within two years.

MSPS were really quite excited last week to be taking part in a largely symbolic vote with an entirely predictable outcome.

NICOLA Sturgeon was at her best during the new, extended First Minister's Questions on Thursday when she spoke about the sickening murder of Liam Fee.

THE warning is becoming louder. It was raised by the Leave team during Thursday's TV debate and, on the same day, by the Chancellor, George Osborne, and two former prime minsters, Sir John Major and Tony Blair. Brexit, they said, posed a serious threat to the Union.