Chinese dissident artist and free speech advocate Ai Weiwei said that authorities in Beijing returned his passport on Wednesday, more than four years after it was confiscated following his 81-day secret detention. Mr. Ai, 58, told Reuters by telephone that police f ....

A U.S.-led coalition air strike has killed a senior al-Qaeda leader in northern Syria who has been accused of plotting attacks against America and its allies, the Pentagon has said. “Muhsin al-Fadhli, a long-time al-Qaeda operative, was killed in a kinetic strike o ....

 Dozens of mayors from around the world demanded on Tuesday that their national leaders take bold steps at the Paris climate talks later this year, saying that may be the last chance to keep the warming of the Earth at levels safe for humanity. Some 60 mayors select ....

According to the reports, Mr. Zarif submitted the text of the agreement to the House. Under Iran’s Constitution, Parliament has a right to reject any deal even one negotiated by the Foreign Ministry. On Monday, the U.N. Security Council unanimously endorsed ....

Ling Jihua has been expelled from the Communist Party and his case handed over to judicial authorities, the official Xinhua news agency said, meaning he will face prosecution. The ruling Communist Party announced an investigation into Mr. Ling in December. He had bee ....

Television footage showed bodies lying beneath trees outside the building in the mostly Kurdish town in southeastern Turkey, some 10 km from the Syrian town of Kobani. "Our initial evidence shows that this was a suicide attack by Islamic State," one senior ....

 More than a half-a-century of Cold War and lingering enmity came to an abrupt but quiet end on Monday as the United States and Cuba restored full diplomatic relations. The new era began with little fanfare when an agreement between the two nations to resume normal ....

Bill Cosby says he paid women after having sex with them and went to great lengths to hide his behavior and the payments from his wife. The New York Times reported the revelations on Saturday after obtaining a copy of a transcript from a deposition Cosby gave a decade ag ....

People’s Daily, China’s official newspaper, is reporting that the drone shot down “by Pakistani military was recognised in Beijing as the Chinese–made DJI Phantom 3”. The daily attributed its conclusion to the “Observer"-- a webs ....

 Republican presidential contender Donald Trump disparaged U.S. Senator John McCain’s war record on Saturday, saying the former prisoner in North Vietnam was only considered a war hero because he was captured. The confrontational real estate mogul, who has bee ....