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The 1974 bombings of two pubs, killing 21 people, have become a case of justice long delayed and an enduring symbol of The Troubles. LONDON -- The police have arrested [...]

In the decades since the death of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, his native Sweden has led the call for countries to disclose what they know about the air [...]

A few provocative tidbits have emerged about the mysterious 1961 death of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, just months before the world body may forever close the book on [...]

LONDON -- Cliff Richard, a British singer and pop star, was awarded about $280,000 in damages by the High Court on Wednesday after bringing legal action against the BBC, which [...]

LONDON -- A prominent jurist conducting an investigation into the plane crash that killed United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold 57 years ago has made some progress in a longstanding [...]

LONDON -- In a surprising courtroom reversal, Husnain Rashid, a self-described jihadist accused of encouraging a terrorist attack on the school of 4-year-old Prince George, the third in line to [...]

LONDON -- A day after investigators identified the Russian military as the source of a missile that brought down a civilian airliner over Ukraine four years ago, the Netherlands and [...]

STOCKHOLM -- Shadowy Italians. The C.I.A. Mysterious arms dealers. Kurdish rebels. Chilean fascists. Agents of the apartheid regime in South Africa. The cast of suspects in the unsolved killing in [...]

LONDON -- Capping a chronicle of illicit sex, bad loans and serial mendacity, a British Army sergeant was convicted on Thursday of trying to murder his wife by tampering with [...]

The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday urged the International Criminal Court to immediately carry out a full investigation into what it described as the successive and continuing Israeli crimes against Palestinians [...]

LONDON -- With songs and silence, the tolling of bells and the privacy of memory, residents of Manchester, England, on Tuesday marked the anniversary of a terrorist bombing at a [...]

LONDON -- It was harrowing for those who listened, but infinitely worse for those whose narrative of loss had been woven into their days and nights since the Grenfell Tower [...]

LONDON -- Both men hailed from the dark, bare-knuckles world of Russian intelligence. Both fell prey, in varying degrees, to toxins -- a long-favored tool of the Kremlin's assassins. The [...]

LONDON -- At a time of a sharpening global focus on cases of sexual abuse dating back decades, an authoritative and highly critical report accused the Church of England on [...]

LONDON -- President Jacob Zuma of South Africa suffered a stinging legal defeat on Wednesday when the country's High Court rejected his efforts to block an inquiry into accusations of [...]

LONDON -- The South African prison authorities said on Tuesday that Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee track star jailed for murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, had been bruised in an altercation [...]

UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations said on Friday that at least 15 peacekeepers, all from Tanzania, were killed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by militant extremists. It [...]

LONDON -- Counterterrorism officers thwarted a terrorist attack targeting the British prime minister, Theresa May, prosecutors said when two suspects in their early 20s appeared in court on Wednesday. Word [...]

Facing pressure from the European Union to make progress in the investigation of the car bomb killing of the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, Malta announced on Monday that 10 people [...]

PARIS -- The moment was dramatic enough: In a courtroom in The Hague on Wednesday, a military commander from the former Yugoslavia pulled out a small bottle and drank from [...]

LONDON -- South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday more than doubled the sentence imposed by a lower court on Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee Olympic sprinter convicted of killing [...]

In an unusual gesture that could partly reverse a more familiar northward odyssey toward Europe, Rwanda offered on Thursday to house or help repatriate some of the thousands of African [...]

THE HAGUE -- It was the closing of one of Europe's most shameful chapters of atrocity and bloodletting since World War II. With applause inside and outside the courtroom at [...]

MOSCOW -- Russia said Tuesday for the first time that it had detected a significant radiation spike in the Ural Mountains, close to a sprawling Soviet-era nuclear plant still remembered [...]

HARARE, Zimbabwe -- A day after the Zimbabwean Army detained President Robert Mugabe, representatives of South Africa and the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday sought to defuse the crisis in [...]

More than 56 years after a plane crash killed Dag Hammarskjold, the secretary general of the United Nations, an authoritative report released on Wednesday said it appeared plausible that an [...]

LONDON -- After 56 years and many investigations, there is new hope that secrets lurking in Western intelligence archives could solve the biggest whodunit in United Nations history: the mysterious [...]

LONDON -- A Russian whistle-blower seeking refuge in Britain dies in bizarre circumstances. There is talk of arcane poison and organized crime. British intelligence services stonewall, citing the imperative of [...]

LONDON -- A few days from now, the anniversary of one of the most enduring international mysteries will slide by, hardly likely to be marked by those in Britain and [...]

LONDON -- Days after a British public inquiry linked President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to the fatal poisoning of her husband, Marina Litvinenko visited a cherished corner of Highgate [...]

LONDON -- In the dank, dark days of November 2006, as Alexander V. Litvinenko, a former K.G.B. officer turned foe of the Kremlin, lay dying in a London hospital, he [...]

LONDON -- It was a time known to its detractors as a decade of hubris, when Western powers deployed the muscular military tactics of the 19th and early 20th centuries [...]

LONDON -- It has seemed, almost, a land of two narratives, one in fear of jihad, the other confronting an older hazard: rain. In London, a man wielding a knife [...]

LONDON -- It provoked years of legal wrangling, diplomatic intrigue and dogged sleuthing by detectives from Scotland Yard seeking clues in abstruse nuclear science. But in the end, the mystery [...]

LONDON -- A high-profile inquiry into the death by poisoning of a former K.G.B. officer who had sought asylum in Britain entered its final, public stages on Tuesday overshadowed by [...]

LONDON -- The long-running inquiry into the poisoning death in London of a former K.G.B. officer, Alexander V. Litvinenko, hit new delays on Monday over the failure of a key [...]

LONDON -- After 28 days of hearings, testimony by scores of witnesses and the presentation of reams of documentary evidence, a high-profile inquiry into the death of Alexander V. Litvinenko, [...]

LONDON -- It was a tragedy that resonated far from its time and its place. When Dag Hammarskjold, the secretary general of the United Nations, perished in an air crash [...]

LONDON -- Prosecutors in Serbia said on Wednesday that eight men suspected of having participated in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's bloodiest slaughter since World War II, had been arrested. [...]

MADRID -- In a discovery that could create a new venue for literary pilgrims, Spanish investigators said on Tuesday that they might have located part of the remains of Cervantes, [...]

LONDON -- The plane had flown deep into the African night on a mission for peace. Finally, it drew near its destination in the copper mining region of what is [...]

LONDON -- In a land that loves its pets as much as, if not more than, its people, it was a death that provoked outrage and tears, headlines and head-scratching. [...]

LONDON -- The fatal shooting in Moscow last week of a Russian opposition leader, Boris Y. Nemtsov, has prompted comparisons with the 2006 poisoning of Alexander V. Litvinenko, another foe [...]

LONDON -- After falling for an embarrassing media sting, two British former foreign secretaries were on Monday facing investigations into whether they broke rules prohibiting lawmakers from trading influence for [...]

JOHANNESBURG -- Somewhere in South Africa, if the news outlets are to be believed, a man once convicted of a slew of murders, torture and kidnapping as the leader of [...]

LONDON -- Andrei K. Lugovoi, a Russian entrepreneur and former K.G.B. bodyguard accused of poisoning Alexander V. Litvinenko with radioactive polonium 210, was quoted Wednesday as saying the charges that [...]

LONDON -- Offering new details after years of official silence, a public inquiry into the death of Alexander V. Litvinenko, a former K.G.B. officer and vitriolic critic of the Kremlin, [...]

LONDON -- At a time when Western leaders are clamoring for greater powers to conduct covert surveillance, a prankster in Britain has turned the tables, obtaining a private cellphone number [...]