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LONDON — The Royal Bank of Scotland on Thursday reported its seventh annual loss, weighed down by restructuring and litigation costs. The bank, based in Edinburgh, announced another drastic restructuring…
The Venetian printer Aldus Manutius (c. 1452-1515) is credited with helping to create the notion of personal reading, thanks to his portable, accessible editions of the secular classics. “Aldus Manutius:…
The British bank Standard Chartered shook up its leadership on Thursday, replacing its longtime chief executive with the American banker William T. Winters and announcing the departure of its chairman…
The British bank Standard Chartered shook up its leadership on Thursday, replacing its longtime chief executive with the American banker William T. Winters and announcing the departure of its chairman…
BEIRUT — Islamic State militants have abducted at least 220 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria during a three day offensive, a monitor that tracks violence in Syria…
WASHINGTON — When President Obama’s national security adviser sat down with her Israeli counterpart at the White House last week, she upbraided him over leaks in Jerusalem that the Americans…
DAEJEONG, South Korea — Not far from Shin Yong-kyun’s strawberry farm are the crumbling remains of an airfield that Japanese colonialists built in the 1930s, to launch air raids against…
MIAMI — President Obama called on congressional Republicans on Wednesday to renew financing for the Department of Homeland Security and promised to veto any measure that tried to gut his…
Credit Shehab Uddin Credit Jules Aarons Credit Shalmon Bernstein Credit Martin Lehmann – A public transport bus that plunged over the side of the Queen Elizabeth Bridge in Johannesburg, South…
Eugenie Clark, whose childhood rapture with fish in a New York City aquarium led to a life of scholarly adventure in the littorals and depths of the Seven Seas and…
There was no sign on the former brick factory on the treeless block in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where Arthur Mondella worked. No name on the door. Nothing — other than…
WASHINGTON — Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. on Wednesday warned that “this is going to sound like a joke,” and then posed an unusual question about four hypothetical job applicants….
ALGIERS — Deep in the Algerian Sahara, daily protests against a pilot hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, project are now well into their second month. The demonstrations have spread to several…
Dr. Craig Spencer, New York’s first and to date only Ebola patient, said in an essay published on Wednesday that he was falsely accused of putting the public at risk…
Chemotherapy and radiation failed to thwart Erika Hurwitz’s rare cancer of white blood cells. So her doctors offered her another option, a drug for melanoma. The result was astonishing. Within…
The Utah gymnast Baely Rowe competing on the beam in a meet against Stanford last Saturday at the Huntsman Center. It drew more than 15,000 spectators.” SALT LAKE CITY —…
Debbie Campbell and her husband, Michael, have embraced what they refer to as the Senior Nomad way of life. Nearing retirement, they decided to downsize, rent their townhouse in Seattle…
Faced with mounting evidence that general anesthesia may impair brain development in babies and young children, experts said Wednesday that more research is greatly needed and that when planning surgery…
Eat By FRANCIS LAM I thought I would talk with Samuel Obeng about the smoky spinach stew the chefs serve at his Bronx restaurant, Papaye, but he steered the conversation…
BORDEAUX, France — For five weeks, a French version of “Downton Abbey” has been unfolding in a courtroom here, providing a rare glimpse into the discreet lives of the ultrarich….
“House of Cards” began as a fun-house-mirror reflection of Washington, an outlandish sendup decked out in the pinstripes-and-Prada props of real-life politics. This Netflix series about a conniving congressman wasn’t…
Farhad Manjoo STATE OF THE ART Silicon Valley has lately come to the realization that it is not the meritocracy it has long pretended to be — at least not…
The case for strong government rules to protect an open Internet rests in large part on a perceived market failure — the lack of competition for high-speed Internet service into…
FRANKFURT — In a contentious appearance before the European Parliament on Wednesday, the president of the European Central Bank said that the future of the eurozone was at risk unless…
The Fox News host Bill O’Reilly aggressively defended his Falklands coverage earlier in his career after reports surfaced that he had embellished stories about his war reporting. Hours after the…
The Fox News host Bill O’Reilly aggressively defended his Falklands coverage earlier in his career after reports surfaced that he had embellished stories about his war reporting. Hours after the…
WASHINGTON — Republicans on Wednesday publicly struggled to resolve tensions within their party as House and Senate leaders searched for a way to avert a partial shutdown of the Department…
Months of declining cases have fed hopes that the Ebola outbreak might finally be ending. “There are now 10 times fewer people diagnosed with Ebola each week than there were…
Three men living in Brooklyn were arrested and charged on Wednesday with providing material support to the Islamic State, a terrorist organization that controls large parts of Iraq and Syria…
“Entombment,” by the Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch. Museo Jumex in Mexico City has cancelled an exhibition of Mr. Nitsch’s work that was scheduled to open this week, saying that the…