Japan on Monday unveiled a new name for the imperial era that begins on May 1, drawing from an ancient Japanese text for the first time, echoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's conservative agenda that aims to bolster national pride. The name "Reiwa" for the new era when Crown Prince Naruhito...

Too poor to even buy pens and notebooks for school, Mehdi left his home in Afghanistan soon after his 17th birthday and headed to Iran, hoping to make his way to Europe and find work. He never made it there. Instead, Mehdi ended up fighting in Syria's civil war, a conflict he had nothing to...

Pope Francis arrives in Morocco on Saturday for a visit which will see him meet Muslim leaders and migrants ahead of a mass with the country's minority Catholic community. The spiritual leader of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics was invited by King Mohammed VI as part of the "development...

Children born abroad to Danish jihadists will no longer receive Danish citizenship, the minority government announced Thursday after striking a deal with its populist ally the Danish People's Party. "Contrary to current rules, children who will be born in regions prohibited to Danes... will...