The last survivor of the devastating San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 has died, a relative has confirmed. William A “Bill” Del Monte died at a retirement home in nearby Marin County on Monday. He was 11 days shy of his 110th birthday. His niece ....

A standoff between the rival Koreas has deepened since last week’s test, the North’s fourth. Condemnation, curb threats Outside North Korea, Mr. Kim faces widespread condemnation and threats of heavy sanctions over the North’s disputed claim of a ....

Six Pakistani nationals were attacked on Sunday by around 20 people and two of them were briefly admitted to a hospital, police said. Also on Sunday evening, a Syrian man was attacked by five people. He was injured but didn’t need treatment. Police said they re ....

Senior officials from the four countries are meeting in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, to launch a process they hope will lead to negotiations with Taliban insurgents, who are fighting to re-impose their strict brand of Islamist rule and are not expected at Monday&rs ....

Participating in an event to mark the completion of one year since Maithripala Sirisena became President, Mr. Gandhi, who served here as High Commissioner during 2000-2002, said “all that made the earlier Constitution vulnerable would have to be kept firmly out an ....

Both Mr. Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe have, on a number of occasions in the recent months, spoken of the need for finding a meaningful answer to the question. Minorities, both Tamils and Muslims, are keen that the government makes substantial progres ....

Many in Iran before the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution believed Princess Ashraf served as the true power behind her brother, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and pushed him into taking power in a 1953 coup engineered by the U.S. Immortalised in her royal prime by ....

The absence of government approval has apparently caused the demolition of a giant gold painted statue of Communist China’s founding father Mao Zedong. The AFP news agency is citing the People’s Net, a news portal linked with People’s Daily, the mouthpi ....

Domestic violence. Gang shootouts. Accidents. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost brothers and sisters, or buried their own children. We’re the only advanced nation on earth that sees this kind of mass violence with this frequency. A national crisis li ....

In a prime—time, televised forum, Mr. Obama dismissed what he called a “conspiracy” alleging that the federal government and Mr. Obama in particular wants to seize all firearms as a precursor to imposing martial law. He blamed that notion on the Nation ....