Counter terrorism police in Britain say that the assailant in last week’s attack on a synagogue in the city of Manchester that left two people dead had claimed allegiance to Islamic State ...

BERLIN — For some Nobel Prize winners this year, the news came with a knock at the door before dawn. For others, it was a long-awaited phone call honoring a discovery made decades ago. One of the ...

Smokestacks of the London Brick Company release their dose of pollution near Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, in 1942, as two women transport bricks to support the war effort. The prevailing direction in ...

PARIS — Iran has released a teenage French-German cyclist who disappeared in June while riding across the country, the French foreign minister said Wednesday. “Lennart Monterlos is free!” the minister ...

More and more European shoppers are buying imitation schnitzel, bratwurst and steak made from plants but some politicians say only real meat should use those names.

Senior officials from the United States, Qatar and Israel have joined the third day of talks between Israel and Hamas in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh ...

Post investigation finds VA’s $193 billion disability program has turned into a rich target for fraudsters. Some fake blindness or paralysis to get as much as $1 million.

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin began a state visit Wednesday to Tajikistan, a three-day trip that includes a series of meetings with leaders of other nations that once were part of the ...

Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up ...

BRUSSELS — Russia is waging a “targeted gray zone campaign” against Europe, including airspace violations, sabotage and cyberattacks that will only escalate if the Kremlin is not challenged, the ...

In Mexico, traditionally women did not inherit chinampas, island farms first built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago ...

Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, “A House of Dynamite,” explores the chilling reality of nuclear annihilation VENICE, Italy — Kathryn Bigelow is exceedingly calm when she talks about nuclear annihilation.