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WASHINGTON — Over the last six months, the United States has left behind the global trade order that persisted for decades in favor of something drastically different and largely untested.Formidable...

Tens of millions of people in the United States struggle with obstructive sleep apnea, a condition that occurs when the throat muscles narrow during sleep, leading to temporary pauses in breathing...

There is a large, growing and very competitive market for electrolyte powders, drinks and tablets. In 2024 the electrolyte drink market was valued around $38 billion.The products are designed to be...

Apple will close a store in northeastern China in August, the first time it has shuttered one of its retail locations since it opened its first outlet in the country in 2008.The company said Monday...

Britain is now more actively weighing the recognition of a Palestinian state, two senior government officials said Monday, a striking shift prompted by public revulsion at the images of starving...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — The narrow streets of Kathmandu — sized for pedestrians and rickshaws — are choked with engines. Buses, motorbikes, small trucks and taxis fill the sprawling valley with horns...

I’ve heard that we lose up to 8% of our muscle mass per decade, starting at age 30. What’s the best way to build new muscle in midlife and beyond?A: Maintaining and building new muscle does...

President Donald Trump said Saturday that Cambodia’s prime minister and the acting prime minister of Thailand had agreed to meet immediately and quickly work out a ceasefire as he sought to end the...

NEW DELHI — There are more than 100 diplomatic missions based in India’s capital, New Delhi. What does it take to set up your own?Not much, if you ask Harshvardhan Jain, aka “Baron H.V....

There typically aren’t many winners in a trade war, but Boeing appears to be reaping some rewards from the one started by President Donald Trump.The aerospace company has received a steady stream of...

Screening can be a powerful weapon against cancer, helping catch some tumors months, or even years, before a person would feel sick enough to see a doctor.There are many different types of cancer, but...

LONDON — The families of two British citizens who died in a plane crash in India last month were sent the remains of other people, according to a lawyer representing the families.In one case, DNA...

There are many factors that can contribute to lower fertility rates. China and India, for example, both had decades-long government programs designed to lower their birth rates. And experts have...

SINGAPORE — In the United States and some other Western countries, many parents wince at the idea of sharing a bed with their young child regularly. But in other places, long-term bed sharing...

MUAN, South Korea — South Korean officials on Saturday abruptly canceled the release of an intermediate report into the deadly crash of a Jeju Air passenger jet, after relatives of the victims...

“Try flying any plane with a baby if you want a sense of what it must have been like to be a leper in the fourteenth century,” wrote journalist, filmmaker and author Nora Ephron in her 1983 novel,...

Some 140 miles above France, American astronauts opened a spacecraft hatch and found themselves face to face with cosmonauts from the Soviet Union. “Glad to see you,” Col. Alexei Leonov spoke...

I’m a 70-year-old active man. I go to the gym, bowl, and play billiards and poker. I’m enjoying my retirement, but I’m also experiencing memory loss. The problem isn’t day-to-day memory,...

AHMEDABAD, India — Before dawn, in the solitude of his upstairs room, Anil Ambalal Patel prepared to say a last goodbye to the couple who had brought love back into his life. Lingering in his...

NEW DELHI — Ravi Thakur was delivering lunch tiffins to doctors at the hospital when a passenger aircraft took off from a nearby airport and, moments later, crashed into a dining facility where his...