A Brief Guide to Cricket Terms, From Beamer to Wicket
The Cricket World Cup is underway in Australia and New Zealand. But unless you are from Britain, India, South Africa or a few other places, you are very likely so…
Author: The New York Times
Despite Ukraine Cease-Fire, Battle for Railroad Town Continues
ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine — A battle for a railroad town in eastern Ukraine escalated sharply on Tuesday, with both the Ukrainian army and Russian-backed militants saying that their soldiers were engaging…
Pills Found to Help Chances of Quitting Smoking in the Future
WASHINGTON — Doctors typically wait until smokers are ready to quit before prescribing pills to help them do it. But a new study has found that even for those who…
Modi Condemns Religious Violence in India
NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India said on Tuesday that his government would not “accept violence against any religion, on any pretext” and that it would take…
Prosecutor Asks for Charges Against Dominique Strauss-Kahn to Be Dropped
PARIS — A prosecutor on Tuesday asked a criminal court in Lille, France, to drop charges against the former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, saying there was not enough…
Taliban Attack Kills at Least 20 Afghan Police Officers
KABUL, Afghanistan — Four Taliban suicide bombers disguised in Afghan police uniforms stormed a heavily fortified provincial Police Headquarters in central Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 20 officers and…
Deadly Suicide Attack Hits Busy Neighborhood in Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan — A Taliban suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a congested neighborhood here on Tuesday after failing to breach the security cordon around the city’s Police Headquarters, killing…
France Moves to Open Up Sunday Shopping
Across Europe, it has been an enduring tension between the clamor for seven-day-a-week shopping and stores that close on Sundays in a nod to earlier times of greater religious faith…
What to Expect on the Sixth Day of New York Fashion Week
What’s in a name? In some, wishful thinking. Who wouldn’t want to head to the 10 a.m. show by Baja East, a newish line of slouchy leisure wear, hoping for…
Forget Barefoot; New Trendsetter, if Not Pacesetter, Is Cushioning
Athletes who spent the past few years embracing or scorning barefoot running can now consider whether increasingly popular “maximalist” shoes — with their chunky, heavily cushioned soles — are the…
Pasco Police’s Shooting of Rock Thrower Draws Comparisons to Michael Brown Case
Agapita Montes, mother of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, at a memorial where he was fatally shot last week in Pasco, Wash.” PASCO, Wash. — Members of the Zambrano family began arriving here…
U.S. Intensifies Effort to Blunt ISIS’ Message
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is revamping its effort to counter the Islamic State’s propaganda machine, acknowledging that the terrorist group has been far more effective in attracting new recruits,…
At New York Fashion Week, Whatever Looks Warm Will Work
There’s nothing like extreme weather to focus the mind. When you are freezing, or thinking about the fact that you are about to be freezing, or defrosting from being freezing,…
Obama Immigration Policy Halted by Federal Judge in Texas
A federal judge in Texas has ordered a halt, at least temporarily, to President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, siding with Texas and 25 other states that filed a lawsuit…
Shortage of Snow Aside, China Jumps Into Bid for 2022 Winter Games
CHONGLI, China — Out here, in the land of China’s Winter Olympics ambitions, there is more propaganda than snow. Some traces of white cling to the brown hills like dandruff,…
With Lunar New Year Show, Another Link to China for a New York Fireworks Family
Viewed from one angle, a hopeful tableau of Chinese-American relations unfolded over the weekend on a pier in Red Hook, Brooklyn: American and Chinese pyrotechnicians loading three barges with equipment…
Men Seeing ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Have the Same Reason as Women: Curiosity
The romantics, the film aficionados, the ones left holding their girlfriend’s purse outside the ladies’ room. Though they were far outnumbered, they, too, were submissive to the hype. They were…
Lance Armstrong’s Ugly Detour From Redemption
Sports of The Times By JULIET MACUR Lance Armstrong once told me that it would take maybe six months to a year for him to rebuild his reputation after he…
Arnaud de Borchgrave, a Journalist Whose Life Was a Tale Itself, Dies at 88
Arnaud de Borchgrave, the son of a Belgian count and a storied foreign correspondent who cabled back bell-ringing scoops throughout the Cold War decades, often from the battlefield, died on…
Canadian Rail Strike Ends as Parties Agree to Arbitration
OTTAWA — A strike by about 3,000 locomotive engineers and conductors at the Canadian Pacific Railway unexpectedly ended on Monday, its second day, as both sides agreed to arbitration. The…
Lesley Gore, Teenage Voice of Heartbreak, Dies at 68
Lesley Gore, who was a teenager in the 1960s when she recorded hit songs about heartbreak and resilience that went on to become feminist touchstones, died on Monday in Manhattan….
Inside Man in Paris Jewelry Holdups Admits to His Role, and Stupidity
PARIS — When diamond thieves struck a Harry Winston jewelry store with clockwork precision, it appeared to be a perfectly executed $100 million heist. But a video of their 2008…
Vodafone Turns Focus to Broadband, Seeking to Catch Up to Rivals
After years of focusing heavily on its cellphone business, Vodafone, based in Britain and the world’s second-largest mobile operator behind China Mobile based on subscribers, is concentrating on high-speed broadband….
Genes Tell Only Part of the Story
I had intended to discuss President Obama’s plans for personalized precision medicine with my patient Barbara last week, but she missed her appointment. Or, more accurately, she arrived two hours…
At Opening Ceremony, the Clothes Are Only the Start
It’s not at all unusual to be invited to a Chelsea gallery during fashion week. Designers love to rent out the galleries that line the far-west blocks of Chelsea —…
Review: Berlin Philharmonic Goes to London in Simon Rattle Homecoming
LONDON — Whenever the conductor Simon Rattle takes his Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra to London, there’s a sense of reckoning: about the boy who went away, made good and is now…
Troubled Chinese Property Developer Says Total Debt Exceeds $10 Billion
HONG KONG — The troubled Chinese developer Kaisa Group disclosed on Monday that its debts now total more than $10 billion and that it urgently needs to restructure its borrowings…
Spyware Embedded by U.S. in Foreign Networks, Security Firm Says
SAN FRANCISCO — The United States has found a way to permanently embed surveillance and sabotage tools in computers and networks it has targeted in Iran, Russia, Pakistan, China, Afghanistan…
Prison Architecture and the Question of Ethics
SAN FRANCISCO — Faced with lawsuits and a growing mountain of damning research, New York City officials decided last month to ban solitary confinement for prison inmates 21 and younger….
With Ukrainian Troops Trapped, Cease-Fire Grows More Fragile
ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine — The plight of as many as 8,000 Ukrainian troops trapped in the vicinity of Debaltseve, as well as the prospects for an already fragile truce, look decidedly…