Shahrnush Parsipur, whose novels and stories about the struggles of women in Iran before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution...

President Emmanuel Macron of France declared on Monday that Europeans were ready to defend their continent, “with blood, if necessary,”...

I know I’m old because I remember when a B+ was a respectable grade. Now it’s more like an indictment....

President Trump said on Monday that Gov. Henry McMaster of South Carolina should appoint Senator Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline Graham...

Over the last three-plus decades, Jay-Z extricated himself from a life of drug dealing to become one of the defining...

Recently a Bojangles restaurant in Savannah, Ga., added a new item to its menu alongside the usual fried chicken and...

On a cloudless summer day, Lindsay Barnett was giving me a tour of Highland Park, a suburb just outside Chicago....

On a hillside trail near Santa Barbara, Calif., songbirds chirped in the arching branches of oak trees. The bright blue...

The passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz has been slowed significantly by the persistent cycle of hostility...

Atipat Wijan’s band was a regular performer at the beer hall in northern Bangkok, where he said the breakers often...

Japan is undertaking an ambitious effort to build a centralized intelligence agency for the first time since World War II,...

Chants of “death to America” from Iranian hard-liners have been heard for decades, but in recent days, officials and clerics...

The British government on Monday accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps of almost certainly directing a wave of attacks against...

Brazil is in the midst of a cinematic golden age. In the past two years, the country has produced two...

Counterterrorism police officers have taken over the murder investigation into the death of the former British minister Ann Widdecombe, in...