MOSCOW — A Russian space capsule carrying the Sochi Olympic torch and three astronauts returned to Earth today from the International Space Station in a flawless landing...
World powers split over deal
GENEVA — Iran and six world powers remain split on terms of a nuclear deal because Tehran is resisting demands that it suspend work on a plut...
BAGHDAD — The wave of attacks by al-Qaida-led Sunni extremists that have killed thousands of Iraqis this year, most of them Shiites, is provoking ominous calls from Shii...
TOKYO — A novice Japanese lawmaker who wanted to draw attention to the Fukushima nuclear crisis has caused an uproar by doing something taboo: handing a letter to the em...
BEIRUT — Syria has given international experts video and photographic evidence that shows a chemical weapons site near the contested northern city of Aleppo has been dis...
BERLIN — An investigation into suspected tax fraud has uncovered a vast trove of artwork seized by the Nazis before World War II and kept behind pallets of canned goods ...
He was killed in drone strike
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — The Pakistani Taliban confirmed the death of their leader in a U.S. drone strike Saturday, a day after he was k...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Syria has completed destruction of critical equipment for producing chemical weapons and filling munitions with poison gas, the global chemical ...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis says he doesn’t know when he will visit Argentina, but a trip to his homeland won’t come off before 2016 at the earliest.
The pontiff, chatti...
