Edinburgh Castle was lit blue to join iconic landmarks in the world to celebrate the United Nations’ 70th anniversary. Other monuments around the world including the Great Wall of China, the pyramids of Giza, New Delhi’s Red Fort, the temples of Baalbek in Leban ....

 Former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s qualified apology for his role in Britain’s military intervention in Iraq in 2003 might well be a case of two little too late. CNN’s Fareed Zakaria asked Mr. Blair in a televised interview on Sunday whether in hi ....

 Palestinian officials reacted warily on Sunday to what U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hailed as Jordan's "excellent suggestion" to calm Israeli-Palestinian violence by putting a sensitive Jerusalem holy site under constant video monitoring. " ....

The arrest was necessary to ensure that Mr. Adheeb would not influence the police investigation into his alleged role behind the boat-blast of September 28 that targeted the President and his family, Mr. Yameen said. The President, who belongs to the important politi ....

Police say the incident took place at Huseni Dalan, an important 17th century center of learning for the minority Shiite community, where 25,000 people had gathered in the old part of Dhaka. Local police chief Aziz Ahmed said a 12-year-old boy died, and that many of ....

 Pakistan is on course to become the world’s fifth largest nuclear weapons state, according to a report by a top U.S. think-tank which estimated the country’s stockpile to increase to 250 warheads in a decade. “Pakistan has a nuclear weapons stockp ....

Mr. Sharif said that despite his efforts to reach out, India had refused to talk to Pakistan “on flimsy grounds.” He said the U.S. paying greater attention to Pakistan’s “views and interests” would be useful for Washington to play “a ....

Mr. Trump is outpacing both of the state’s resident sons as he continues to dominate early opinion polls and he is hoping to maintain that advantage with a heavy investment in the state beginning on Friday, when he arrives for a two-day campaign swing his first as ....

An image released by BFM television showed the carcass of the bus nothing but a collapsing, charred frame engulfed by smoke. Fire-fighters fanned out along the narrow road, between a wooded area and an upward slope near the village of Puisseguin, about 50 km east of Bor ....

 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Thursday she supports President Barack Obama’s decision to keep 5,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan when he leaves the White House in 2017. Ms. Clinton said Friday in an interview with CNN that Mr. ....