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WASHINGTON — Gruesome killings by the Islamic State, terrorist attacks in Europe and tensions with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia are reshaping the early Republican presidential race, creating anxiety…
BRUSSELS — The new Greek government vowed to take a disciplined approach to budgets, spending and tax collection in the financial plan it submitted for eurozone approval, but said it…
HAVANA — The river where Jonas Echevarria fishes cuts through neighborhoods brimming with new fine restaurants, spas and boutiques, springing up in Cuba’s accelerating push toward private enterprise. Tattered mansions…
BERLIN — The co-founder of an anti-immigrant group in Germany that has denounced the supposed “Islamization” of Western Europe has resumed his position at the head of the movement, weeks…
JERUSALEM — Israeli forces shot and killed a 19-year-old Palestinian man when clashes broke out during a military raid on a refugee camp in the Bethlehem area of the West…
NEW DELHI — The head of a prominent Hindu organization came under criticism Tuesday for remarks he made about Mother Teresa, in which he said that the Nobel Peace laureate’s…
LONDON — On Tuesday, FIFA effectively shifted the 2022 World Cup in Qatar from a summer event to a winter one. It turns out, as any intelligent observer knew all…
FIFA’s scheduling committee formally recommended on Tuesday what most had been expecting for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar: moving the soccer tournament from the summer to the cooler months,…
BERLIN — The heirs of Nazi-era Jewish art dealers say they have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. suing Germany and a German museum for the return of a medieval…
Among the hundreds of shoppers there on a typical evening are the many Indonesian domestic servants — euphemistically called “helpers” — who share the tiny apartments with local families in…
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — A Palestinian official says Israeli troops have shot and killed a Palestinian during an overnight raid in the West Bank. – Go to Home Page »
TEHRAN — The audience members in Tehran’s Vahdat concert hall rose from their seats, clapping wildly as the frontman Bob Belden, a fun-loving New Yorker with a predilection for loud…
Mr. McDonald, a 1975 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, served in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, where he completed jungle, arctic, desert warfare and Ranger…
Credit Shalmon Bernstein Credit Martin Lehmann Credit Sam Phelps Credit “I think we are poor because we were born into a poor family and once again, without education, land, fishing…
The Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Monday stepped up his defense against reports that he embellished stories about his war reporting earlier in his career, while some former colleagues…
NEW DELHI — Rahul Gandhi, long expected to be the next leader of India’s beleaguered Congress Party, threw political commentators into fits of baffled speculation on Monday when party officials…
TORKHAM, Afghanistan — First, the Afghan families’ homes were raided by Pakistani policemen wielding sticks. Then the men were hauled off to jail, released only after relatives paid bribes. When…
Their legal careers, and by extension their marriage, are the stuff of lore. Mary Jo White leads the Securities and Exchange Commission; her husband, John, practices law at an old-guard…
LONDON — Already forced to apologize for helping clients hide their income from tax authorities, HSBC had to explain on Monday why its chief executive went to lengths for years…
CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait — The new defense secretary, Ashton B. Carter, said Monday after meeting with senior American military and diplomatic officials in Kuwait that the Obama administration had “the…
Alan Howard, a celebrated English actor whose regal bearing and imposing voice gave life to a spate of Shakespearean kings, died on Feb. 14 in London. He was 77. His…
Alaa Abd El Fattah, a political activist, and Ahmed Abdel-Rahman were sentenced to five years in prison for violating a law that seeks to curtail demonstrations. ISTANBUL — A blogger…
ATHENS — Greece on Monday delayed the submission of the proposed reforms that European creditors have made a condition of the country’s financial aid. European and Greek officials spent much…
JERUSALEM — Israel’s state-owned electricity company briefly reduced the power supply to two Palestinian districts in the northern West Bank on Monday because of a ballooning debt, according to company…
LOS ANGELES — In the end, it was the audience that got snubbed. Following the best picture win on Sunday night by “Birdman” — a brainy film seen by fewer…
Xu Yong, who has more than 20 photography books to his name, chose to publish only the raw negatives of the images he took of protesters at Tiananmen Square in…
WARSAW — The utter tenacity with which the director Pawel Pawlikowski talked and talked and refused to be shooed off stage by the Oscar orchestra has been matched only by…
First Photo from Space.rn A camera on a V-2 launched Oct. 24, 1946, from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico taking the first photograph from above the 100-kilometer…
WASHINGTON — After promising an era of responsible governance and an end to federal shutdowns, congressional Republicans find themselves mired in an immigration fight that could cause funding for the…
WASHINGTON — After promising an era of responsible governance and an end to federal shutdowns, congressional Republicans find themselves mired in an immigration fight that could cause funding for the…