Author: Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cast himself as an ascetic, a pious man of the people who spends his down time meditating. Outside the U.N. on Thursday, he showed off his yoga skills.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a four-day visit to the United States. It wasn’t that long ago he couldn’t get a U.S. visa.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to China marks the first visit to the country for a top U.S. diplomat in five years. But thawing relations may require more than diplomacy.

Using sports as a tool to draw positive attention to a country’s reputation is not a new tactic. Some Arab nations have been taking it to new heights.

She can sing. She can dance. Beyoncé can also cause unexpectedly high inflation in Sweden, an economist calculated.

British lawmakers published a report into whether former Prime Minister Boris Johnson misled Parliament about COVID lockdown parties. In a scathing report, they concluded he did.

The media mogul was Italy’s longest-serving premier despite scandals over sex-fueled parties and corruption allegations.

A day after a dam in southern Ukraine was badly damaged, some towns are submerged, structures swept away and mass evacuations are ongoing.

The leader of the mercenary Wagner Group dismissed claims by the Russian Defense Ministry that its troops killed more than 1,500 Ukrainian troops.