For Young Armenians, a Promised Land Without Promise
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An independent Armenia has proved too constricting and its promise too distant for the next generation's ambitions.
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The poverty, unemployment and lack of opportunity that afflict many of Turkeyâs cities are crushing in the regional capital of Trabzon â especially for young people.
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell talks to Armenians in Turkey and asks why 90-year-old massacres are still such a sensitive subject.
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Politicians who argue so vehemently that we remember history seem to have forgotten the Armenian Genocide following World War I, the Holocaust of World War II and the brutal ethnic cleansings in Cambodia, Serbia and Rwanda.
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Comment is free: Soumaya Ghannoushi: The occupation has helped to pave the way for this presence in Palestine.
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Children from poorer homes are up to a year behind their more privileged peers by the age of three.
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Indian teenager Sania Mirza is being   hampered by the high expectations of her compatriots a year   after being hailed as the nation's glowing tennis prospect.
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Twenty-four years ago, a youth named Chai Soua Vang was part of the first wave of immigrants from Laos who came to the United States after the Indochina war.
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This landlocked city may seem an unlikely place to situate a naval base, but for Palestinians without a state perhaps it is fitting to have a navy without a sea.
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A youth movement seeks the ideological cultivation, some say indoctrination, of the first generation to come of age in post-Soviet Russia.
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A young person's life prospects improve dramatically by getting a college education, but the country's schools have room for only one in six applicants
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In the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem, residents say that Israeli interests will trump theirs despite Bush's vow of a peace deal this year.
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A year after the murder of Turkish-Armenian writer Hrant Dink, the issues he raised remain unresolved.
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It was dreamt up by Hungary's communist authorities to instill work ethic in the young, but half a century later, the "children's railway" rumbling through the hills around Budapest is still operated by 10- to 14-year-olds.
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NIR YAFE, Israel -- It seems a far-fetched scheme for this farm village: With outside investors, community leaders want to build a track for horse racing, although Israelis hardly know the sport and two of the principal promoters acknowledge that they have never seen thoroughbreds thunder around a dirt oval.
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On the surface, Syria looks starkly different than it did a few years ago: Cafes and restaurants, private universities and banks have sprung up, with large construction sites signaling even more development to come.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- His grandmother's bones went missing two years ago, not long after the rains stopped. "The grave is all rubber trees" now, said Sev Thveal, 23. Part of the Jarai minority, he can barely read and write and has worked the land so long that his toenails are a permanent shade of...