The diverse gathering, which includes people of all ages and colours, is silent and grave as people pay tribute to those who died in the attacks at a hastily created memorial at the base of the statue. Parisians are on the streets in a show of defiance and national r ....

Opening two days of talks with world leaders in Turkey, Mr. Obama pledging U.S. solidarity with France in the effort to hunt down the perpetrators and bring them to justice. He said “the skies have been darkened” by the horrifying terror spree, but offered n ....

Police identified the man suspected of renting the car that delivered attackers to the Bataclan concert hall as Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old born in Brussels. “Do not intervene yourself,” warns the message issued on Sunday evening. Abdeslam is thought to ....

Twelve aircraft including 10 fighter jets dropped 20 bombs in the biggest air strikes since France extended its campaign against the extremist group to Syria in September, a Defense Ministry statement said. The jets took off from sites in Jordan and the Persian Gulf, in ....

Speaking at the 2015 World Innovation Summit for Education in Doha, Qatar, Obama said more needs to be done to ensure girls know their bodies “are a source of pride, not pain or shame.” “Solving our girls’ education is definitely about resourc ....

A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, insisted that aviation investigators were working on all possible theories as to why the Airbus A321—200 carrying 224 people crashed Saturday in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, killing everyone on boa ....

Islamic State, which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria and is battling the Egyptian army in the Sinai Peninsula, said again on Wednesday it brought down the airplane, adding it would eventually tell the world how it carried out the attack. The Airbus A321 crashed on ....

The fall art auction season got underway Wednesday evening with Sotheby’s selling 77 works from the A. Alfred Taubman collection. The auction house said nearly 90 percent of the works were sold. At a day sale Thursday, Sotheby’s featured an additional 122 wo ....

More than 700,000 people have come to Europe seeking sanctuary or jobs so far this year, overwhelming reception centers and border authorities. EU autumn economic forecasts released on Thursday show that based on current migrant entries and a “technical assumpt ....

The measure was approved in 4—1 vote on the five—justice panel, backing the argument that smoking marijuana is covered under the right of “free development of personality.” At this point, the ruling covers only the plaintiffs in a single case, ....