Dozens of supporters of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr breached the walls of Baghdad’s heavily guarded International Zone, bursting into the country’s parliament chambers and attacking a senior lawmaker.
Oil prices finished their best month in a year and are headed back toward $50 a barrel, bringing some relief to beleaguered energy producers even though they reported some of their worst quarterly results in years.
At least 10 people were killed and 134 injured after a six-story residential building in Nairobi collapsed following heavy rain and flooding, Kenyan officials said.
The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into Dole Food over a listeria outbreak linked to four deaths in the U.S. and Canada and multiple other illnesses. 59
WSJ’s Erik Holm discusses what to expect at this weekend’s Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting.
Ted Cruz, in a last-ditch effort to derail GOP front-runner Donald Trump, is trying to marshal support from governors, former rivals and other anti-Trump Republicans ahead of the make-or-break primary in Indiana Tuesday. 237
Alexis Stenfors’s investment-banking career evaporated when he lied about losses, which ultimately cost Merrill Lynch $456 million. Moving on hasn’t been easy. 66
Beginning May 7, the Getty Research Institute will show Buddhist artwork in the show “Cave Temples of Dunhuang.”
The showdown between Ford and Reagan at the deeply divided 1976 convention was a preview for today’s fractured GOP. 62
Foreigners are flocking to try a traditional brew called ayahuasca that some say eases psychological distress—but it has dangers, too.
Rules from the head of the famed conferences: focus, connect, shun jargon, tell stories, practice—and have something to say.
Klein Gilhousen made his fortune in San Diego in the 1980s as a developer of cellphone technology. After the murder of his daughter, he and his wife moved to Montana, took up ranching and philanthropy, and helped found a seminary. He died earlier this month at 74.
Philip Kives, a Canadian farm boy who became one of North America’s best-known and most frenetic TV pitchmen, has died at age 87, his family said.
Louis Paul Latour expanded the reach of his family’s wine empire beyond France’s Burgundy region. Though a student of ancient winemaking processes, he wasn’t wedded to them. He died earlier this month at 83.
Chuck Pilliod, a World War II bomber pilot, led Goodyear when it was besieged by Japanese and European rivals. His heavy investments kept the Akron company in U.S. hands. He died earlier this month at 97.
A new slew of style-focused exhibitions will appeal to sartorialists of nearly every stripe.
The former director of the NSA and CIA and author of ‘Playing to the Edge’ on why he uses an iPad and the joy of binge-watching ‘Homeland.’
The chefs of London’s Young Turks collective and their contemporaries have come of age with restaurants that are redefining the city’s restaurant scene.
Wearing full-on sparkle in the sunlight is a spring trend the fashion world insists is fully viable. We asked a paillette-garbed reporter to test that theory.
Amid trying economic times, Beijing has dramatically amped up a call for vigilance even from its youngest citizens, with games such as “Spot the Spy” being played in schools. 154
Ireland’s two largest political parties have sealed a deal that may pave the way for Enda Kenny to stay on as prime minister and end the country’s longest-ever period without a government.
Empresas Polar SA, Venezuela’s largest private company and producer of 80% of the beer consumed by Venezuelans, began to shut down its last operating beer plant, creating the latest scarcity in a country already crippled by shortages of many products. 97
Spiraling violence in and around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo has plunged the country back into a multi-sided war and frayed the international effort to fight Islamic State, even as the U.S. and Russia try to resurrect a cease-fire.
A Hindu man was hacked to death in central Bangladesh on Saturday, police said, following a spate of similar attacks in the Muslim-majority South Asian nation.
As hotels rush to incorporate cutting-edge technology into the guest experience, travelers are split: While some are turned off by robots and text-based ‘hospitality,’ others love the cool efficiency of a futuristic home-away-from-home.
Pixar’s “Finding Dory” and the new “Captain America: Civil War” are seen as near-certain blockbusters, but otherwise there’s plenty of opportunity for competitors to break out.