New Delhi's top diplomat will travel to Washington this week for talks with US officials as anger grows over the death of an Indian expatriate in a suspected hate crime. Thousands of Indians visit...
US President, Donald Trump, has announced he will not attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on 29 April. The glitzy event draws celebrities, journalists and politicians,...
A film about Syria's White Helmets -- rescuers who risk their lives to help save civilians caught in the country's devastating war -- took home the Oscar for best documentary short on Sunday. The...
Asian markets kicked the week off with broad losses Monday, with Tokyo hit by a stronger yen, as the global Trump rally shows signs of fragility ahead of a key speech by the new president to...
Two Afghan friends were incarcerated together at Guantanamo Bay, but they chose starkly divergent paths after release -- one became an Islamic State jihadist, the other joined the US-led government...
Iranian film "The Salesman" on Sunday won the Oscar for best foreign language film, with director Asghar Farhadi skipping the Hollywood gala in protest at a travel ban by US President Donald Trump....
China's top diplomat will be in the US this week, becoming the highest-level Chinese official to visit the United States since President Donald Trump was elected. China's State Councillor Yang Jiechi...
The United States will on Monday claim its seat at the UN Human Rights Council under the new presidency of Donald Trump, whose election has provoked deep concern over the body's future. Over its...
White House press secretary Sean Spicer recently checked his aides' cell phones to ensure they weren't communicating with reporters as part of an aggressive effort to stem the recent tide of White...
The Hollywood awards season reached its glittering climax Sunday as the Oscars began with pop star Justin Timberlake doing a rendition of his nominated song "Can't Stop the Feeling." Nostalgic...
Vandals have broken and overturned more than 500 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, the latest in a spate of recent bomb threats and attacks against sites for Jews across the United...
Donald Trump will have a chance to breathe new momentum into his month-old presidency in an address to Congress Tuesday night, but he will need to strike the right tone -- far from his score-settling...
About 250 people demonstrated in support of the news media Sunday, amid stepped up attacks on the press by President Donald Trump. Although New York, a Democratic bastion, has been the scene of...
Meryl Streep is demanding an apology from couture legend Karl Lagerfeld, in a spat over the gown she's planning to wear to the Oscars ceremony, entertainment media reported on Sunday. On the eve of...
The father of a US Navy SEAL killed in a raid in Yemen criticized President Donald Trump's decision to give the go-ahead and called for an investigation in an interview published Sunday. Bill Owens,...
For the past three decades, Emilio Lopez Bautista has risen before dawn and headed to work in the farm fields of California, earning an honest living, buying a house, and steering clear of trouble....
Thousands of film buffs were expected to gather in London's Trafalgar Square Sunday for a screening of "The Salesman" by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who is boycotting the Oscars over US...
President Donald Trump’s administration is soliciting ideas from contractors on how to build its promised wall between the U. S. and Mexico, a first tangible step toward delivering on the...
India Sunday demanded the "strongest action" from the US government after an Indian man was killed and another wounded in a suspected hate crime in the midwestern state of Kansas. The two men, who...
Iran's ex-president Mahmud Ahmadinejad published Sunday an open letter to Donald Trump, welcoming his criticism of the US political system but taking issue with his visa ban and attitude to women....
