India’s Supreme Court has threatened to shut the Taj Mahal as it warned environmental degradation was a "hopeless cause" and castigated the authorities for not acting fast enough to protect the 17th century white marble…
An Italian coast guard ship carrying migrants who allegedly made death threats against the crew of a merchant vessel after being rescued in the Mediterranean docked in a port in Sicily on Thursday. But the…
The Trump administration has launched an offensive of speeches and online communications meant to foment unrest and help pressure Iran to end its nuclear program and its support of militant groups, according to US officials familiar…
The Iraqi cleric whose bloc won the most votes in May’s election has called for a halt to talks to form a new government until the demands of protesters sweeping the south of the country…
A cyclist who ignored warnings on a moving bridge narrowly escaped serious injury as onlookers came to her rescue. The incident can be seen in dramatic footage released by the Wisconsin Transport Department. It shows…
A conflict over the remains of the last tsar and his family has split the Russian Orthodox Church as it commemorates the 100th anniversary of their murder by the Bolsheviks. While the bones of the…
Malcolm Turnbull, Australia’s Prime Minister, said on Thursday that Pope Francis must sack an archbishop convicted of concealing child sex abuse. Archbishop Philip Wilson, 67, in May became the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of…
There was little that could be done by the time Dr Osama Abu El Ezz arrived at the scene of the nerve agent attack on his family’s village of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib, northwest Syria,…
Bill Browder has described himself as "Putin’s No 1 enemy". Now the Russian president had added weight to that claim by singling out the British investor at his controversial summit with Donald Trump on Monday. The…
WhatsApp announced limits on Friday on the forwarding of messages by its 200 million Indian users in an effort to stop a spate of horrific lynchings and to assuage government threats of legal action in its…