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LONDON -- As brand names for high-rise towers, hotels or golf courses go, it is hard to trump Trump. But what about Fort Trump, the supposedly tongue-in-cheek name President Andrzej [...]

LONDON -- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have set a marriage date for May 19, Britain's royal family announced on Friday. The couple said shortly after announcing their engagement in [...]

LONDON -- It began with smiles and holding hands in the White House. Then she told him he was wrong to send a bunch of tweets the way he did. [...]

ROME -- It has been a question of theological debate and liturgical interpretation for years, and now Pope Francis has joined the discussion: Does the Lord's Prayer, Christendom's resonant petition [...]

LONDON -- After all the talk of coalitions and constructs, odd bedfellows and shotgun alliances, Britain seemed to revert to its political default: a single party, in this case the [...]

COPENHAGEN -- In Europe's political landscape, one nation's vantage may offer insights into another's, and so it seemed this week to a reporter zigzagging from Britain to Denmark to Germany [...]

LONDON -- A gathering of Nobel Peace Prize laureates opened in Rome on Friday, overshadowed by a dispute with the Vatican over reports that Pope Francis had refused to grant [...]

LONDON -- Ever since colonial cartographers drew their common frontier across the Zambezi River, Zambia and Zimbabwe have shared an uneasy destiny: landlocked nations, onetime adversaries and now mirror images [...]

Byline: HERVÉ TAOKO and ALAN COWELL OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso -- Demonstrators surged on Thursday through the dusty streets of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, setting fire to the Parliament [...]

LONDON -- A simmering dispute within South Africa's political establishment moved closer to a showdown on Monday when the country's biggest labor union announced that it would break with the [...]

LONDON -- Caught off guard by the crisis in Ukraine, NATO plans to create a ''spearhead'' rapid deployment force and a ''more visible'' presence in Eastern Europe to assuage concerns [...]

Byline: SCOTT SAYARE and ALAN COWELL PARIS -- Breaking ranks with other European countries, France announced on Wednesday that it would send weapons to the embattled Kurdish authorities fighting Sunni [...]

PLETTENBERG BAY, South Africa -- From the Sharpeville massacre a half-century ago to Soweto in the 1970s, South Africa's imagery has frequently reflected a land in turmoil. Now those same [...]

LONDON -- Days after Iran struck a landmark accord with world powers on its nuclear program, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced on Thursday that Tehran had invited its inspectors [...]

ISTANBUL -- With its skyline stitched by minarets and its soul straddling the Bosporus waterway, this city has long defined itself as geography's junction between East and West, where the [...]

LONDON -- A Syrian government official said on Thursday that long-postponed peace talks under international auspices -- known in diplomatic shorthand as Geneva II -- could be held in late [...]

LONDON -- As the pace of efforts to scrutinize Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles quickens, United Nations inspectors said on Friday that they were investigating reports that the weapons were used [...]

GIGLIO, Italy -- After a costly, painstaking and potentially perilous operation to raise the battered hull of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, engineers said early Tuesday that they had succeeded [...]

LONDON -- After more than seven years of service as a guards officer and pilot, Prince William will end his military service and focus on charitable work and conservation issues, [...]

LONDON -- Prospects for a Western-led military strike on Syria increased on Tuesday as the American defense secretary said United States forces were ready for any contingency, the British and [...]

PARIS -- Amid reports of continued skirmishes with Islamist extremists driven out of the main settlements of northern Mali, France renewed a promise on Wednesday that its soldiers would begin [...]

WASHINGTON -- Breaking a deadlock over the location and timing of new talks on its disputed nuclear program, Iran has agreed to resume its stuttering dialogue with world powers later [...]

LONDON -- Iran has told the United Nations nuclear supervisory body that it plans to install more sophisticated equipment at its principal nuclear enrichment plant, a diplomat said Thursday, enabling [...]

LONDON -- Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain, who postponed a much-awaited address on his country's future relations with Europe because of the Algeria hostage crisis, will deliver the speech [...]

LONDON -- Two decades after it supported the introduction of women as priests, the Church of England began three days of deliberations on Monday that will include a critical vote [...]

LONDON -- The number of people who said they were sexually assaulted by Jimmy Savile, one of Britain's most popular television hosts, expanded to 300 from 200 in just the [...]

LONDON -- When their day is done, empires shrink back on themselves, but the yearning for greatness never quite fades. Imperial rule leaves its imprint on the overlord as much [...]

LONDON -- Lawyers for a Muslim cleric wanted in the United States on terrorism charges said on Tuesday that the preacher, Abu Hamza al-Masri, was physically unfit to face the [...]

LONDON -- British police officials said Thursday that they had charged five people with terrorism offenses but insisted the accusations were not related to the Olympic Games, which open here [...]

LONDON -- The Danish authorities said on Friday that they had arrested three men accused of planning a terrorist operation and of illegal possession of firearms. The Danish intelligence agency, [...]

LONDON -- A senior Iranian official hinted on Monday that Iran would consider limits on its home-grown stockpile of enriched uranium, offering what seemed a modest compromise to partly meet [...]

LONDON -- A senior Iranian official was quoted on Wednesday as saying that long-awaited talks with world powers on his country's disputed nuclear program would begin on April 13 and [...]

AL QAA, Lebanon -- The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, ''strongly'' urged President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on Wednesday to immediately put into effect a peace plan he is [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- The top United Nations relief official offered a somber view on Friday of the aid crisis caused by the uprising in Syria, saying she had witnessed horrific [...]

LONDON -- An Islamic bank in the United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday that it ''took pre-emptive action'' to end business relationships with some Iranian banks when it learned that [...]

LONDON -- A team of United Nations inspectors arrived in Iran on Monday for its second visit in three weeks, saying its highest priority remained ''the possible military dimensions'' of [...]

LONDON -- Arguing that the centuries-old ''ties that bind'' Britain together were under threat from Scottish separatism, Prime Minister David Cameron traveled to Edinburgh on Thursday to meet with First [...]

Besieged by international sanctions over the Iranian nuclear program including a planned oil embargo by Europe, Iran warned six European buyers on Wednesday that it might strike first by immediately [...]

EDINBURGH -- Scotland's first minister, Alex Salmond, took the first formal step on Wednesday toward an independence referendum that the government in Edinburgh hopes will secure a mandate from Scotland's [...]

BERLIN -- A senior figure in Germany's junior coalition partner resigned abruptly on Wednesday, presenting Chancellor Angela Merkel with a potential political distraction as she leads European efforts to combat [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration plans to impose a new round of sanctions against Iran's petrochemical industry, a Western official briefed on the plans said Friday, less than two weeks [...]

LONDON -- The Most Rev. Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury, will travel to Zimbabwe this weekend as part of an African tour and will seek to persuade President Robert G. [...]

PRORA, Germany -- Three years before the outbreak of World War II, Adolf Hitler's lieutenants ordered the construction of what was portrayed as a remarkable perquisite for the toiling masses [...]

British voters redrew areas of the country's political landscape on Friday with a series of local, regional and national votes that punished the Liberal Democratic junior coalition partner for the [...]

LONDON -- Just 24 hours before the event, Britain said Thursday that it had revoked the Syrian ambassador's invitation to the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, turning the [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED LONDON -- Nineteen governments have said their ambassadors will not attend a ceremony this week awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, the [...]

LONDON -- A day after central London was shaken by violent protests against government-decreed increases in college tuition, Prime Minister David Cameron's administration braved a potential for further popular unrest [...]

LONDON -- The British government on Wednesday unveiled the country's steepest public spending cuts in more than 60 years, reducing costs in government departments by an average of 19 percent, [...]

LONDON -- Britain announced Wednesday that 1,000 of its troops in Afghanistan will hand over to American Marines by October in the hotly contested Sangin region of northern Helmand Province, [...]