For some women in West London’s Afro-Caribbean communities, beauty pageants nurtured racial pride and self-expression.

Enlarge this image Mayor-elect London Breed waves before speaking to reporters on Wednesday outside City Hall in San Francisco. Lorin Eleni Gill/AP hide caption toggle caption Lorin Eleni Gill/AP London Breed made history Wednesday as the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in San Francisco, the city where she grew up. Ballots were still being for more than a …

The connections nurtured by the financier Tom Barrack look to have paid off handsomely for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — and for his business.

Nasrin Sotoudeh, internationally known as a rights activist, was taken on Wednesday to the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran, her husband said.

President deems Tehran ‘a regime of great terror’ that poses a threat to the US

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that Mr. Musk’s company hopes to create a system of electric vehicles underground to carry people from downtown to the airport.

Achilles the “oracle cat” has picked the home side to beat Saudi Arabia in the opening match of the World Cup.

After a day working on the land where he grows corn and beans, Víctor de León serves himself freshly purified water, one of the benefits of the climate change adaptation project in the Central American Dry Corridor region, La Colmena village, in the municipality of Candelaria de la Frontera, in the western department of Santa Ana, El Salvador. Credit: Edgardo …

Miss Iraq’s family fled their homeland after being threatened over a selfie taken by their daughter.

United Nations officials and others said that hundreds of thousands could starve if the assault drags on, closing a vital gateway for relief supplies.