A Cancer Cluster Is Tough to Prove
George Johnson RAW DATA Last month, thousands of Marines and their families were blocked in federal court from pursuing their claim that the government had given them cancer. The decision,…
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United Nations Postpones Report on Possible War Crimes in Sri Lanka
The United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday agreed to defer the release of a landmark inquiry into possible war crimes in Sri Lanka, after an intense lobbying campaign by…
French Jews See Cemetery Vandalism as Latest Sign of Anti-Semitism
PARIS — Teenage vandals are suspected of overturning as many as 250 gravestones in a cemetery in a rural part of eastern France near the German border, where many Jews…
Lance Armstrong Loses $10 Million Arbitration Ruling
AUSTIN, Texas — An arbitration panel ordered Lance Armstrong and Tailwind Sports Corp. to pay $10 million in a fraud dispute with a promotions company for what it called an…
The Dead Militant in the Photo? The Wrong Guy, and He’s Not Happy
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — After an airstrike killed a prominent recruiter for the Islamic State in Afghanistan last week, the Afghan spy agency issued a triumphant news release announcing his death…
The ‘S.N.L.’ 40th-Anniversary Show: Very Funny, Except When It Wasn’t
Humor, like beauty, doesn’t always last. Chevy Chase and Eddie Murphy proved that. And even the most secure institutions aren’t impregnable, as Jerry Seinfeld’s joke about the disgraced NBC News…
As Eurozone Finance Ministers Meet About Greece, Compromise May Be Elusive
BRUSSELS — German and Greek officials traded barbed remarks ahead of a meeting of eurozone finance ministers on Monday, signaling how difficult it may be to resolve the latest crisis…
Hot Flashes Can Linger as Long as 14 Years, Study Finds
Conventional wisdom has it that hot flashes, bursts of intense warmth and sweating that afflict up to 80 percent of middle-aged women, last a few years. But they can actually…
Japan Makes a Quick Exit From Its Latest Recession
TOKYO — Japan’s latest recession was as short as it was unexpected. The Japanese economy, the world’s third-largest, started expanding again at the end of 2014, government data showed Monday,…
Fatal Accidents as a Global Health Crisis
Follow Us: Get the Upshot in your Inbox FEB. 16, 2015 Jeremy N. Smith – The World Bank has made reducing transport deaths a major investment priority, and Michael Bloomberg…
2 Men Suspected of Helping Copenhagen Gunman Are Arrested
COPENHAGEN — Two men suspected of helping the 22-year-old gunman responsible for killing a documentary filmmaker and a guard in Copenhagen in a rare outbreak of terrorism have been arrested,…
Veteran Communist Leader Wounded by Gunman in India
NEW DELHI — A veteran Communist leader and critic of right-wing groups was shot along with his wife in central India on Monday morning as they were out for a…
As Immigrants Settle Beyond City Limits, Help Is Hard to Find
José was looking for peace and quiet, in addition to work, when he decided to settle in the hinterlands of upstate New York 14 years ago. “A lot of farmland…
Hong Kong Ferry Captain Sentenced to 8 Years in Deadly Collision
HONG KONG — The captain of a ferry involved in Hong Kong’s deadliest maritime accident in more than four decades was found guilty of 39 counts of manslaughter Monday and…
Boehner Says He’d Allow Homeland Security Shutdown
WASHINGTON — The House speaker, John A. Boehner, said Sunday that he was “certainly” prepared to allow funding for the Department of Homeland Security to lapse, raising the possibility that…
A Lineup of New York Icons, With Carmelo Anthony on the Bench
On Pro Basketball By HARVEY ARATON Inside the Javits Center complex on the windy, frigid West Side of Manhattan on Sunday morning, there was genuine warmth for the N.B.A. legends…
Egypt Conducts Airstrikes on Islamic State Targets in Libya
CAIRO — The Egyptian military said on Monday that it carried out airstrikes in Libya in retaliation for the beheading of more than a dozen Egyptian Christians by a branch…
U.S. Revels in Victories and Its Rising Status in a Sport
BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — When the Alpine world ski championships came to the United States this month for the first time since 1999, the 13-day event was quickly defined by…
Egypt Strikes IS Group in Libya After Video of Mass Killing
CAIRO — Egypt said Monday it has launched airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Libya after the extremist group released a grisly video showing the beheading of several Egyptian Coptic…
C.I.A. Is Said to Have Bought and Destroyed Iraqi Chemical Weapons
The Central Intelligence Agency, working with American troops during the occupation of Iraq, repeatedly purchased nerve-agent rockets from a secretive Iraqi seller, part of a previously undisclosed effort to ensure…
Dangers, Frustrations and Snow Keep Piling Up in New England
BOSTON — Leaden skies tested the patience and sanity of winter-weary New Englanders once again over the weekend, unleashing more than two feet of new snow on parts of the…
Newspaper in India Pays a Price for Reprinting a Charlie Hebdo Cartoon
MUMBAI, India — The Charlie Hebdo slaughter in Paris has reverberated into the multireligious ethnic sprawl of Mumbai, where an Urdu newspaper has closed and its editor faces charges and…
Suddenly, Layering Is the Rage
What felt like Arctic-strength winds were blowing on Sunday as New York Fashion Week attendees braved their shows — and the temperatures, with the wind chill, hovered perilously close to…
China Product Recalled in Australia After Hepatitis Outbreak
SYDNEY — An Australian company has recalled its frozen berry products after a hepatitis A outbreak linked to poor hygiene and water supplies in a Chinese packaging plant. The Australian…
Louis Jourdan, Dashing Star of ‘Gigi,’ Is Dead at 93
Louis Jourdan, a handsome, sad-eyed French actor who worked steadily in films and on television in Europe and the United States for better than five decades, as a romantic hero…
A Korean Auto-Racing Debacle, but Hope Around the Bend
YEONGAM, South Korea — Eight years ago, the South Korean province of South Jeolla, which includes this sleepy coastal county, cleared 1,000 acres of rice paddies and embarked on a…
Japan’s Economy Expands, but Less Than Expected
TOKYO — Japan emerged from recession at the end of 2014, government data showed on Monday, though the economic growth — the country’s first since early last year — was…
Hoping Google’s Lab Is a Rainmaker
SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s research arm, Google X, is called the company’s Moonshot Factory. One reason the company picked the word “Moonshot” was to remind people to tackle big problems…
Netanyahu Urges ‘Mass Immigration’ of Jews From Europe
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said on Sunday that his government was encouraging a “mass immigration” of Jews from Europe, reopening a contentious debate about Israel’s role…
David Carr’s Last Word on Journalism, Aimed at Students
David Carr was known at The New York Times as a supreme talent scout, a mentor to young reporters and a blunt critic of those who didn’t measure up. He…