Three years after the United States left Iraq, its return to the region is getting a less than enthusiastic welcome, with allies finding ways to avoid specific commitments to an expanded effort against Sunni extremists.
President Obama’s determination to train Syrian rebels against ISIS leaves the United States dependent on a diverse group riven by infighting.
More than 14 million vehicles have been recalled over rupture risks involving air bags made by a Japanese supplier, Takata, which failed to disclose the problem despite red flags.
A rising number of officials have committed suicide, a trend that researchers suspect may be linked to an anticorruption campaign by President Xi Jinping of China.
Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa ruled that the athlete was guilty of negligent killing in the shooting of Reeva Steenkamp, but did not immediately issue a sentence.
As Scotland prepares to vote on independence on Thursday, British bankers worry about an exit from the European Union.
Sotheby’s is planning to auction a trove that once belonged to Rachel Lambert Mellon, matriarch of a family whose holdings rivaled some of America’s most well-known dynasties.
The journalist and ex-wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn has reappeared with a memoir of her family’s place in art history.
Choir singing and vestment-wearing is down, while the use of visual projection equipment and the practice of jumping, shouting or dancing are up.
The Carmelo area, not far from Argentina, has recently gained attention as much for its wine as for being an awfully nice place to visit.
At “closed door” restaurants in the Argentine capital, the address is just part of the intrigue.
World War II dramas give Beijing a handy propaganda tool to shore up patriotic fervor.
The United States needs to be on the right side of a fault line that has opened between Islamists and non-Islamists.
