BERLIN — Helmut Schmidt, the chancellor who guided West Germany through economic turbulence and Cold War tensions, stood firm against a wave of homegrown terrorism and b...
UNITED NATIONS — Russia has circulated a document on ending the nearly five-year-old Syrian conflict that calls for drafting a new constitution in up to 18 months that w...
BEIJING — Chinese authorities expect that easing the country’s one-child policy will add more than 30 million people to the country’s labor force by 2050, a senior offic...
Russia says it's still speculative
LONDON — British Prime Minister David Cameron declared today it was “more likely than not” a bomb brought down a Metrojet flight packed...
Vatican leaks scandal grows
The Vatican’s new leaks scandal intensified today with a book detailing the mismanagement and internal resistance that is thwarting Pope ...
224 killed on Russian plane
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Only an external impact could have caused a Russian plane to dive into the Egyptian desert, killing all 224 people on...
BEIJING — A two-story building collapsed into rubble while workers were trying to prop up the second floor during renovations in central China, killing 17 construction w...
More than 220 people on board
CAIRO — A Russian aircraft carrying more than 220 people crashed Saturday in the Sinai Peninsula more than 20 minutes after takeoff from a R...
BEIJING — China’s Communist Party on Thursday officially ended its policy that limited most families to a single child, an acknowledgment that the 1970s population-contr...
TOFINO, British Columbia — Passengers were crowded on the left side of the top deck of a whale-watching boat when it was struck by a wave from the right side, causing th...
