Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said from Davos, Switzerland that a suspect was in custody. “This is every parent’s worst nightmare,” Mr. Trudeau said. “The community is reeling.” Mr. Trudeau said the shootings occurred at a high school ....

Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti has ruled that chess is forbidden in Islam, saying it encourages gambling and is a waste of time. Sheikh Abdullah al-Sheikh was responding to a question on a television show in which he issued fatwas to viewers who sent in queries on ever ....

The British Foreign Office summoned the Russian Ambassador on Thursday to set out its “deep concern” regarding the findings of the report. David Lidington, Minister of State at the Foreign Office, told Ambassador Alexander Vladimirovich Yakovenko that the in ....

Massoud Barzani, who has led the troubled country’s Kurds for the past decade, said the international community had started to accept that Iraq and Syria in particular would never again be unified and that “compulsory co-existence” in the region had be ....

On Wednesday, she released an essay on her website, titled “What President Obama’s legacy means to me,” recounting the achievements of the incumbent, particularly in the sphere of economy and healthcare, and promising to build on that. In the interv ....

Replying to a question by The Hindu, Captain Krishna Swaminathan of INS Vikramaditya, told visiting journalists that according to information provided by Sri Lanka’s Navy Commander, this was also for the first time that an aircraft carrier had come to Colombo afte ....

The stone sculpture is of Harihara, a deity that combines aspects of Vishnu and Shiva, the two most important gods in the Hindu pantheon who represent the creation of the universe and its destruction. It was taken from the Phnom Da temple in southern Takeo province by F ....

 Pakistan’s nuclear warheads which are estimated to be between 110-130 are aimed at deterring India from taking military action against it, a latest Congressional report has said. The report also expressed concern that Islamabad’s “full spectrum de ....

The 329-page report of the inquiry committee, chaired by Sir Robert Owens, was presented by Home Secretary Theresa May to the House of Commons on Thursday. The panel was set up on July 22, 2014. The report has found Andrey Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun guilty of committi ....

U.S. officials and congressional aides involved in discussions say the Homeland Security Department will outline how it will phase in the new rule, designed to make it harder for Europeans who have fought for the Islamic State to enter the United States. The law pass ....