For Tech Start-Ups in Europe, an Oceanic Divide in Funding
LONDON — When Arnaud Bertrand helped found HouseTrip, a vacation rental website, in 2009, his goal was to build a rival in Europe to Airbnb, which was then a year-old…
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CCTV, China’s Propaganda Tool, Finds Itself at Center of Antigraft Drive
BEIJING — As President Xi Jinping accelerated his sweeping campaign against government corruption, political enemies and Western influences in China, he deployed the Communist Party’s most powerful propaganda tool, the…
Indian Prime Minister Voices Concern About Targeting of Churches
NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India summoned the police commissioner of the Delhi region on Friday to express his concern about a series of episodes of what…
G.M.O. Apples Are Approved for Growing in the United States
The United States on Friday approved the commercial planting of genetically engineered apples that are resistant to turning brown when sliced or bruised. – Okanagan is still engaged in a…
Fighting Escalates Ahead of Ukraine Truce, Government Forces Surrounded at Rail Hub
ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine — Government forces trapped in a strategic railway hub in eastern Ukraine came under heavy assault on Friday as Russian-backed rebel fighters sought to exploit the window ahead…
Ask Well: Put on the Snowshoes
If by “good,” you mean a workout that leaves you sweat-soaked and panting, then snowshoeing may provide a better workout than running or walking. In one of the few studies…
For Victoria Beckham, a Neutral Zone Amid Chaos
Victoria Beckham chats with Vanessa Friedman about being a working mother in charge of a growing fashion label at her minimal office in the Battersea area of South London. LONDON…
On Tinder, Taking a Swipe at Love, or Sex, or Something, in New York
On a recent night, with Valentine’s Day looming, I went out for drinks with a woman I know and a few of her friends. It was a Thursday, and the…
U.N. Envoy to Syria Says Assad Is Crucial to Hopes to End War
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Appearing to address one of the core issues that have derailed peace talks in Syria, the United Nations special envoy for the country on Friday described President…
In Senegal, a Coastal Region Sees a Resurgence
Explorer By STEPHEN MARCHE As the low-slung pirogue hummed along the Casamance River in the remote southern portion of Senegal, dolphins accompanied us. I had first spotted them on the…
9 Killed as Train in India Hits Boulder
NEW DELHI — Nine passengers were killed and 10 were seriously injured when a train in southern India derailed Friday morning near Bangalore after hitting a boulder that had rolled…
Rebels Kill Dozens of Soldiers in Myanmar Near Border With China
BANGKOK — More than 50 government soldiers and police officers have been killed in Myanmar in recent days in clashes with an armed ethnic group, the state news media said…
2 Al-Jazeera Journalists Freed From Prison in Egypt
CAIRO — Two Al-Jazeera English journalists were released from an Egyptian prison on Friday, after spending more than a year behind bars on terror-related charges in a case denounced as…
Eurozone Growth Exceeds Expectations
PARIS — The European economy grew slightly more than expected in the fourth quarter of 2014, official data showed on Friday, as Germany’s growth accelerated more than enough to offset…
Chinese Catholics Seek Answers to Bishop’s Fate
HONG KONG — For the better part of the last 60 years, Bishop Cosma Shi Enxiang was imprisoned in Chinese jails and labor camps. For the last 14, he was…
Boko Haram Launches First Attack on Chadian Village
MOUNDOU, Chad — Suspected Boko Haram militants attacked a village on the shore of Lake Chad early Friday, marking the first such violence against the neighbor contributing the most military…
David Carr, a Journalist at the Center of the Sweet Spot
For a while, a few years ago, there was a weekly video on the New York Times website called The Sweet Spot, taped during off hours in the cafeteria on…
Obama Heads to Security Talks Amid Tensions
PALO ALTO, Calif. — President Obama will meet here on Friday with the nation’s top technologists on a host of cybersecurity issues and the threats posed by increasingly sophisticated hackers….
Celebrating the Chinese Lion Dance
Credit Bharat Choudhary Credit Adela Sanz Fernández Credit Colleen Mullins – The remains of a rocket shell on a street in the town of Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine. Seven civilians were…
David Carr, Times Critic and Champion of Media, Dies at 58
David Carr in 2008, the year he published his memoir, “The Night of the Gun,” a story of his battles with drugs in the 1980s.” David Carr, a writer who…
Paris Aims to Embrace Its Estranged Suburbs
GRIGNY, France — Paris is about to get bigger, much bigger. Next year, assuming plans move ahead, the city and a ring of inner suburbs will be joined, in an…
As Woods Motivates Vonn, Her Finale Is Positive if Not Medal Worthy
BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods kissed in the finish area Thursday after Vonn struggled and finished 27th in the first run of the giant slalom at…
New York Archdiocese Parishioners See System of Secrets as They Fight Church Closings
For aggrieved parishioners at churches ordered closed or merged by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan last November, it seemed like a simple task: Get a copy of the formal decree of…
Red Cross Faces Attacks at Ebola Victims’ Funerals
Red Cross volunteers helping to safely bury people who die of Ebola in Guinea have been attacked in recent days by people attending the funerals, complicating efforts to stop the…
Neighbors Say Suspect in Chapel Hill Shootings Was Threatening
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Neighbors knew Craig Stephen Hicks. He was the angry man on Summerwalk Circle, they said — irritated about noise, irascible about parking, hostile to religion. And…
Mexican Towns Galvanized by Tragedy
Brigida Chora Lopez, 83, grandmother of Alexander Mora Venancio, in her house in El Pericon, in Mexico’s Guerrero State. Mr. Mora’s remains have thus far been the only ones officially…
A Temple to Narendra Modi? No Thanks, India’s Prime Minister Says
NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India publicly distanced himself on Thursday from the gestures of idolatry that Indian politicians regularly receive, the latest an attempt to inaugurate…
Greek Debt Standoff Awaits a Decisive Move
Seated in a wheelchair awaiting him was Germany’s dour and all-powerful finance chief, Wolfgang Schäuble. The personification of fiscal discipline, Mr. Schauble was flanked by several officials, dossiers at the…
U.S. Judge Orders Alabama Official to Issue Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
For three days, same-sex couples and their supporters have camped out in the Mobile, Ala., probate court, waiting to be issued marriage licenses. Alabama counties where probate judges are declining…
Plastic Ocean Waste Levels Going Up, Study Says
Some eight million metric tons of plastic waste makes its way into the world’s oceans each year, and the amount of the debris is likely to increase greatly over the…