French women are starting to picture their next president as a divorced mother of three. The anti-euro, anti-immigrant candidate Marine Le Pen has been playing up her gender as she seeks to convert a likely first-round victory into an overall majority ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — The Indonesian woman arrested for suspected involvement in the killing of the North Korean leader's half brother in Malaysia was duped into thinking she was part of a comedy show prank, Indonesia's national police chief said ...

Terminal 2 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport was convulsing with its usual Monday morning chaos. Passengers were crowding around self-check-in kiosks for no-frills flights to Bali and Cebu and Da Nang, cramming belongings into their carry-ons.

The White House on Thursday gently warned Israel that new or expanded settlements in the West Bank “may not be helpful” in achieving a Middle East peace, while insisting it has no “official position on settlement activity.” A statement issued by press ...

The White House on Thursday gently warned Israel that new or expanded settlements in the West Bank “may not be helpful” in achieving a Middle East peace, while insisting it has no “official position on settlement activity.” A statement issued by press ...

Buckingham Palace intervened in the row over President Donald Trump's forthcoming state visit by asking the British government to make clear that the invitation had come from the Prime Minister, it was claimed Monday night. Trump's provocative decision ...

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died Sunday after a decades-long career in the ruling elite, where his moderate views were not always welcome but his cunning guided him through revolution, war and the country's ...

Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump: The Post will follow the vote all night with live analysis and commentary. The polls give Hillary Clinton a slight edge over Donald Trump, but with key states Florida and Pennsylvania showing the potential for a tight ...

How to adjust to the astonishing disappointment that George Clooney is just like any other man? Of course he's still better looking and sexier and more effortlessly alpha and richer and more engaged with humanitarian issues and has a house on Lake Como.

The Briton threatened with execution next by militants from Islamic State in Iraq and Al-Sham is a Manchester taxi driver who drove a van full of aid to Syria to help children in the war-torn country.

In 1991, after the Kuwait War had ended, and as Saddam Hussein attacked Iraq's 6-million Kurds, three arguments were made against American intervention on the Kurds' behalf, arguments still commonly heard today: (1) Kurdish independence would spell ...

On the surface there was an odd note to Stephen Harper, the prime minister, making the momentous announcement that one of two ships from the doomed Franklin expedition, missing since 1846, had been discovered in the Arctic. “I am delighted to ...

On the surface there was an odd note to Stephen Harper, the prime minister, making the momentous announcement that one of two ships from the doomed Franklin expedition, missing since 1846, had been discovered in the Arctic. “I am delighted to ...

You practically can't be in love nowadays without having some famous person wander in on your party. A pair of newlyweds tying the knot in Portofino, Italy, learned just that over the weekend when Beyonce and Jay-Z tried to pop into the church where their ...

Researchers studying the remains of an enormous dinosaur — a creature that was bigger than seven bull elephants — have given it an equally colossal name: Dreadnoughtus, or “fearing nothing.” Scientists hope its unusually well-preserved bones will help ...

Up to 20 Western hostages are being held by the jihadi group that beheaded James Foley. As well as the journalist Steven Sotloff, who was threatened with beheading by the same man who murdered Mr. Foley, the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) is ...

A doctor from East London who was previously accused of kidnapping western journalists in Syria may hold the key to identifying the jihadist who beheaded James Foley, intelligence sources have disclosed. Shajul Islam was arrested and charged with ...

GAZA, Gaza Strip — An Israeli air strike in Gaza killed three senior commanders of the Hamas military wing Thursday, delivering a likely blow to the organization's morale and highlighting the long reach of Israel's intelligence services. The pre-dawn strike ...

Ferguson police don't have a monopoly on the facts — the sooner they realize it, the better. “The whole world is watching” means something very different today than it did 46 years ago when anti-war protesters outside the Democratic National Convention in ...

The American-backed offensive to recapture Iraq's biggest dam stalled Monday, as fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham rigged part of the area with booby traps and remotely triggered bombs. Whilst a series of air strikes by American F-18 fighter ...