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WASHINGTON — The Islamic State is expanding beyond its base in Syria and Iraq to establish militant affiliates in Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt and Libya, American intelligence officials assert, raising the…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Shots were fired Saturday at a cafe in Copenhagen that was hosting a freedom of speech event organized by Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who has faced numerous…
BAUCHI, Nigeria — Scores of Boko Haram fighters traveling in a convoy of vans attacked the northeast Nigeria town of Gombe Saturday morning, engaging in heavy fighting as the military…
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Gunmen attacked a vehicle carrying a polio vaccination team in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing the driver and leaving one health care worker wounded, according to police…
ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine — The United States released satellite images on Saturday meant to bolster its case that Russia has joined separatists in an all-out assault on the Ukrainian Army during…
HONG KONG — The captain of a ferry that collided with another passenger vessel in 2012, leaving 39 people dead in Hong Kong’s worst maritime accident in decades, was found…
HONG KONG — If you can’t beat them, join them. That seems to be the thinking behind a Saturday announcement that China’s two largest taxi-hailing mobile applications, Didi Dache and…
Peter Copping’s appointment as the successor to Oscar de la Renta was announced to the world last year on Oct. 13. Seven days later, Mr. de la Renta died.rn Mr….
Follow Us: Get the Upshot in your Inbox FEB. 13, 2015 Economic View – If history is a guide, whether this treaty’s goals are met will depend on the extent…
BAGHDAD — Iraqi and American military officials have intensified talk in recent weeks of a major offensive against Islamic State militants, casting it as a quickly approaching operation that is…
Fifty years ago, the designer Betsey Johnson — part rebel, part cheerleader — got herself from proper Connecticut to New York City, as many a respectable female adventurer was wont…
The police said Friday that they had disrupted a plot by four people to kill a “large number of individual citizens” in the Halifax area of Nova Scotia. The Royal…
At least nine high schools in Brooklyn and one in Queens have Uzbek immigrants on their wrestling squads.rn Jahongir Davronov, 14, who came to New York in 2010, said his…
BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — For most of the last five years, winning the giant slalom had come easily to Ted Ligety. Almost too easily. Pressure-filled moments did not matter. World…
Beliefs By MARK OPPENHEIMER On Wednesday, in an interview in London, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a potential Republican presidential candidate, sidestepped the question of whether he believed in evolution….
MONTERREY, Mexico — A passenger bus and a freight train collided at a grade crossing in northern Mexico on Friday, killing at least 16 people and injuring 22, an official…
Hollywood’s grande dame hotels, the Sunset Tower and the Chateau Marmont, stand like stone sentries on Sunset Boulevard, less than two miles from the decidedly less stylish stretch of Hollywood…
MOSCOW — In some places, say New York, the panic over snow often begins as soon as there is a forecast for it. In Russia, where it is a bit…
HOUSTON — The global benchmark price for oil rallied above $60 a barrel on Friday for the first time in 2015, but analysts warned that growing stockpiles were hanging over…
AMMAN, Jordan — Whether three young students were shot and killed in North Carolina this week in a parking dispute or, as their families believe, because they were Muslims, online…
Before she got engaged a couple years ago, Lisa Sokolowski, a blogger in Leland, N.C., rarely mentioned her boyfriend on her regular Twitter account. But after he proposed, she started…
In a speech at Stanford University, President Obama introduced an executive order that will promote more information sharing to combat cyberthreats. PALO ALTO, Calif. — Declaring that the Internet has…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Heavily armed militants killed at least 19 people and wounded more than 40 after they stormed into a Shiite mosque during Friday Prayer in a suburb of…
MOBILE, Ala — As probate courts around Alabama opened on Friday, a day after a federal judge barred the probate judge in Mobile County from denying marriage licenses to same-sex…
BUENOS AIRES — A federal prosecutor in Argentina on Friday revived the explosive accusations leveled by Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor whose mysterious death has gripped the country, by seeking to…
DAKAR, Senegal — Boko Haram widened its attacks to a fourth country early on Friday, striking a village in Chad for the first time. Members of the Islamist militant group…
SEATTLE — Gov. John Kitzhaber, long regarded as a wily survivor of Oregon politics, resigned Friday amid a spiraling crisis that included a criminal investigation of the role that his…
Recent satellite image analysis by Unitar-Unosat, an agency of the United Nations, reveals vast devastation in major cities across Syria from the civil war that started nearly four years ago….
KIEV, Ukraine — The Merefa Glass factory, which has manufactured bottles and jars in Ukraine since 1896 and employed more than 2,000 people, has suspended operations because its main furnace…
Observatory – The findings help refute the idea that the presence of dinosaurs stunted the evolution of early mammals, he added. “This shows interesting evolution can still happen with mammals…