There is only one view of the murder of the British soldier Lee Rigby on a south London street three weeks ago: horrific.   But there are two views of its significance. One is that it was an...

It's survival of the fittest among the shrinking number of soap operas at the Daytime Emmy Awards.   Sunday's ceremony pits the only four remaining soaps still airing on...

When President Obama comes to Belfast, he's expected to praise a country at peace and call for walls that separate Irish Catholics and British Protestants to come tumbling down.   Barely...

Moderate cleric Hasan Rowhani was declared the winner of Iran's presidential vote on Saturday after gaining support among many reform-minded Iranians looking to claw back a bit of ground after...

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake has struck in the Mediterranean Sea south of the Greek island of Crete but no damage or casualties have been reported.   According to the Athens Geodynamics...

Protesters will press on with their sit-in at an Istanbul park, an activist said Saturday, defying government appeals and a warning from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the two-week standoff...

Almost all recoveries from recession have included rapid employment growth – until now. Though advanced-country central banks have pursued expansionary monetary policy in the wake of the global...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday he has asked a small delegation of protesters to persuade the hundreds of others occupying an Istanbul park to withdraw, hopefully by the end of...

Ozzy Osbourne and the members of Black Sabbath worked hard to create a dark aura around their band in the late 1960s, laying down a proto-metal blueprint for a legion of groups to...

The world’s central banks are engaged in one of the great policy experiments in modern history: ultra-easy money. And, as the experiment has continued, the risk of failure – and thus of...