Hardline conservatives in Iran are gearing up for the commemoration of the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran on Tuesday. Preparations for the anniversary are happening amid signs of a possible backlash against the recent easing of tensions in US–Iranian...
French Foreign Ministry confirms that RFI journalists were abducted and killed by gunmen outside town of Kidal. Two French journalists have been killed in the northern Mali town of Kidal after being abducted by gunmen. Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, both journalists with...
Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud was killed on Friday in a U.S. drone strike, security and intelligence sources said, in the latest blow to the Islamist militant group. The al-Qaeda-linked insurgent group confirmed the death of Mehsud, believed to be in his mid-30s....
Allegations that the U.S. National Security Agency spied on millions of French citizens are set to overshadow vital talks on the future of Syria. Top-ranking politicians from both sides of the Atlantic will come face to face on Tuesday just one day after a report in Le Monde...
A 12-year-old student armed with a handgun shot and killed a math teacher and critically wounded two classmates before killing himself at his Nevada middle school on Monday shortly before classes were due to begin, police said. Witnesses described a chaotic scene at the school in the...
Facebook FB -0.87% is suffering a system outage Monday morning that is preventing people from posting status updates. It’s unclear how widespread the issue is, how long it has gone on, and whether it is affecting just the website or apps, too, but rest assured it isn’t...
JPMorgan agrees deal to settle probes into bad loans sold before the 2007 crisis, but criminal proceedings to continue. JPMorgan has agreed a provisional deal with the US government to pay $14 billion to settle investigations into bad mortgage loans the bank sold to investors...
Francois Hollande, France's president, has said a Roma schoolgirl deported after being forced off a bus full of her classmates may be allowed to come back, but without her family. Hollande's comments on Saturday came amid protests by thousands of high school students against Leonarda...
Gunmen in disguise kill lieutenant of once-powerful Tijuana cartel during family children's party. The eldest brother of Mexico's once powerful Arellano Felix drug cartel family was killed by gunmen dressed as clowns at a children's party, according to a Mexican investigator....
Washington may press Iran to import nuclear fuel rather than make it, an official said as talks to end the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program were to begin. “We are prepared to talk about what President Obama said in his address at the U.N. General Assembly...
A senior leader of the Pakistani Taliban has been captured by American military forces, a U.S. official said on Friday. Latif Mehsud was described by the State Department as a senior commander in the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). “I can confirm that U.S. forces did capture......
Turkish TV presenter Gözde Kansu (pictured) has been dismissed after a spokesman for the ruling Justice and Development Party criticised her for wearing a low-cut top on television, saying he found her outfit “unacceptable”. A Turkish TV presenter has...
There was a moment midway through Malala Yousafzai's much-watched interview on "The Daily Show" when host Jon Stewart announced, apparently spontaneously, and in words that seemed to channel how much of the West feels about this young Pakistani woman, "I want to adopt you." The comment captured...
Alice Munro , the renowned Canadian short-story writer whose visceral work explores the tangled relationships between men and women, small-town existence and the fallibility of memory, won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. Announcing the award in Stockholm, the Swedish...
Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems." The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the scientists' research in the...
Turkey has frozen the accounts of people and organizations linked to al-Qaeda and the Taliban, in compliance with a decision by the United Nations’ Security Council. The Ministerial Cabinet decided to freeze the accounts of 219 people and 63 organizations linked...
Pakistani teenage activist shot last year by Taliban is awarded EU prize for fighting for girls' rights to education. Pakistan's teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban for fighting for girls' rights to education, was awarded the European Parliament's...
An exiled Iranian opposition group said on Thursday it had information about what it said was a center for nuclear weaponisation research in Tehran that the government was moving to avoid detection ahead of negotiations with world powers. The dissident National Council of Resistance...
Islanders on Europe's southern edge have become used to tragedy and trauma, they see it every day in the thousands of asylum seekers who land on their shores -- and they say they have had enough. The locals of the remote fishing community on Lampedusa island rush to help every time but their...
Israel and Iran are once again not seeing eye to eye, but this time it’s over something fairly unusual: Iran’s clothing choices . Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proved how out of touch he is with Iranian society when he intimated in his first interview with BBC...
