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WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday peppered Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, with pointed questions about the central bank’s stimulus campaign and its responsibilities as a financial regulator….
ISTANBUL — Police officers in Turkey arrested dozens of fellow officers on Wednesday accused of wiretapping President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and top government officials. The chief prosecutor’s office in Ankara,…
WASHINGTON — For President Obama, this has been a week to guard his power. He went to court to defend his executive action on immigration while fighting an effort by…
Dariusz Mazur, a judge presiding over the case in the regional court in Krakow, complied with the film director’s lawyers’ request that the hearing be closed to the public. The…
PARIS — For a second straight night, mysterious unidentified flying objects were spotted over some of Paris’s most identifiable landmarks, officials said on Wednesday. Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre, the spokeswoman for the…
KABUL, Afghanistan — Avalanches caused by a heavy winter snow killed at least 108 people in northeastern Afghanistan, an emergency official said Wednesday, as rescuers clawed through debris with their…
MOSCOW — The Russian government laid plans to annex Crimea and invade southeastern Ukraine weeks before the government fell in Kiev, a Russian newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing a Kremlin…
DHAKA, Bangladesh — An anticorruption court in Dhaka, the capital, issued an arrest warrant on Wednesday for the opposition leader in Bangladesh, former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, in a move…
KABUL, Afghanistan — The torture and mistreatment of people arrested for conflict-related activities remain widespread in Afghan prisons, a United Nations report released on Wednesday found, pointing to a continued…
A street sign for Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google’s growth has brought the city loads of tax dollars and a 3.3 percent unemployment rate, but also skyrocketing home…
— China News (@Echinanews) 25 Feb 15 The digital hunt for an iPhone lost in a New York bar a year ago, which put an editor at BuzzFeed in contact…
ATHENS — A former Greek finance minister, George Papaconstantinou, who signed the country’s first international bailout in 2010, pleaded not guilty before a special criminal court in Athens on Wednesday…
I lost my driver’s license over a year ago. I lose stuff all the time. Credit cards, passports, car keys, cash, books, bags, laptops. It doesn’t worry me, they usually…
ATHENS — A former Greek finance minister, George Papaconstantinou, who signed the country’s first international bailout in 2010, appeared before a special criminal court in Athens on Wednesday over his…
HONG KONG — An 81-year-old survivor of Mao’s purges was tried and convicted in southwestern China along with his assistant on Wednesday, with both receiving suspended sentences for publishing the…
Can a high-fat diet also be a high-performance diet? Most people who exercise or compete in endurance sports would probably answer no. For decades, recreational and competitive athletes have stoutly…
HONG KONG — Two months after protesters were cleared from the streets, the Hong Kong government announced on Wednesday an annual budget full of tax breaks and other handouts to…
In a bygone era, Italy depended upon the Old Lady of Turin, otherwise known as Juventus, to lift the nation on European soccer nights. And in more recent times, Borussia…
LONDON — Gemalto, a French-Dutch digital security company, said on Wednesday that it believed that American and British intelligence agencies had most likely hacked into the company’s networks in an…
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Marijuana has been pervasive but illegal in Jamaica for decades, consumed as a medicinal herb, puffed as a sacrament by Rastafarians and sung about in the island’s…
WASHINGTON — Susan E. Rice, President Obama’s national security adviser, sharply criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Tuesday over his plans to address a joint meeting of Congress…
LONDON — Even loyal fans of the Gay Hussar, a restaurant favored for decades by London’s political left, will acknowledge its shortcomings. Quite a few admit that those include the…
CHICAGO — Rahm Emanuel, who was easily elected mayor of this city four years ago, was dealt a setback Tuesday. Though he came in first among five candidates, Mr. Emanuel…
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Marijuana has been pervasive but illegal in Jamaica for decades, consumed as a medicinal herb, puffed as a sacrament by Rastafarians and sung about in the island’s…
Credit Jules Aarons Credit Shalmon Bernstein Credit Martin Lehmann – After a winter storm on Friday, a prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.” Ukrainian soldiers near the city of…
On the series finale of “Parks and Recreation,” one of the show’s more likable losers finally made good with a best-selling advice book titled “Failure: An American Success Story.” That…
ROME — For the past month, as Greece once again emerged as a threat to the global economy, a new generation of populist Greek leaders vowed to shatter Europe’s austerity…
STEPHENVILLE, Tex. — Eddie Ray Routh, the mentally disturbed veteran who killed Chris Kyle, the former Navy SEAL marksman who inspired the movie “American Sniper,” was sentenced Tuesday to life…
The icy reminder of a baseball truth has blown down from New England, down from a Rhode Island city forever described as gritty, or struggling, or, more politely, challenged. No…
Long and luxurious eyelashes have been in fashion at least since Cleopatra. But scientists now suggest that their real function is to help protect eyes from drying out. David Hu…