The government made clear that it was open to less intrusive options in a new legal filing intended to blunt public criticism by Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, who said the software would be “too dangerous to create” because it would threaten the d ....

 U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have reportedly destroyed more than $500 million cash reserves and 20 kilograms of gold stored by the terror group, a U.S. media outlet reported on Friday. The estimate comes amid reports that the terror g ....

New unilateral sanctions by the U.S. seek to sharpen and expand the scope of existing sanctions against the North, but with its neighbour and closest ally China opposed to it, the efficacy of the move remains ambiguous at best. Despite intense U.S. diplomatic efforts, i ....

Spokeswoman Lori Glazer of Eco’s American publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, said that Eco took his last breath on Friday. She could not immediately confirm the cause of death or where he died. He was 84. Author of a wide range of books, Mr. Eco was fascinat ....

The news was first reported by ABC News which said that the announcement could be made on Thursday. “The trip is planned for March 21-22 before the president flies to Argentina,” the news channel reported on Wednesday. Republican presidential hopeful M ....

Apple Inc opposed a court ruling on Tuesday that ordered it to help the FBI break into an iPhone recovered from a San Bernardino shooter, heightening a dispute between tech companies and law enforcement over the limits of encryption. Chief Executive Tim Cook said the cou ....

Pope Francis's remarks on Thursday that U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is "not Christian" due to his views on immigration sparked jokes on social media, and the Pope quickly became a trending topic on Twitter in the United States. The b ....

Like many who study or work at the school in liberal Austin, president Greg Fenves opposed allowing guns on the roughly 50,000-student campus. Texas’ universities had been gun-free zones under the state’s previous concealed handgun laws, but the Republican-d ....

The Anti-Terrorism Court in Islamabad, which is holding the trial of the seven accused including Mumbai attack mastermind and LeT operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, in its hearing on Wednesday at Adiala Jail Rawalpindi also directed that the boats used by Ajmal ....

Widely regarded as a moderate leader of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), progressive and “left-wing thinker” in the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), Mr. Cooray succeeded H.M.G.S. Palihakkara, who had held the post for a year. He told The ....