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Syria’s main international airport in Damascus, the capital, will reopen next week, the new government said Saturday, as it tries to reestablish a sense of normalcy after the uprising that toppled...

MUAN, South Korea — Days before setting off on a vacation from which he would never return, Oh Jaejin’s father had been overjoyed at the prospect of becoming a grandfather after Oh told him that...

SEOUL, South Korea — Boeing’s shares fell on Monday, a day after the deadly crash of a 737-800, a widely used model that is a staple of low-cost airlines, at an airport in South Korea. The...

MUAN, South Korea — The passenger plane with 181 people on board skidded on the runway at a high speed and slammed into a wall before exploding into flames. Two crew members were rescued alive...

LOS ANGELES — The struggles have become a painful, recurring storyline in Hollywood. A script supervisor visits a food bank every other week. The cinematographer moved to Georgia for better...

When Russian scientists released a pair of orphaned Amur tiger cubs into the wild in a remote corner of Russia’s far east in 2014, they were trying to save a species. While the tigers, sometimes...

ROME — Roman drivers finally got some relief Monday when, after 450 days of traffic chaos and unprintable curses, a ribbon-cutting ceremony heralded the opening of an underpass along the Tiber River...

This Christmas Eve, a vehicle is traveling at incomprehensible speed around a celestial object to bring wonder to the people of Earth — and it’s not Santa’s sleigh. On Tuesday at 6:40 a.m....

Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan are discussing a possible merger, in a bid to share costs and help themselves compete in a fast-changing and increasingly competitive industry. But a merger,...

DHAKA, Bangladesh — On a recent evening, in a brand-new office on the first floor of a commercial building where wires dangled from the ceiling and flooring was still being laid, a group of...

Over the past two days, President-elect Donald Trump has made clear his designs for American territorial expansion, declaring that the United States has security concerns and commercial interests that...

Government offices in Iran are closed or operating at reduced hours. Schools and colleges have moved to online only. Highways and shopping malls have descended into darkness, and industrial plants...

LONDON — Although the collapse of President Bashar Assad’s government in Syria was shockingly quick, rebuilding the devastated economy he left behind will be painfully slow. After nearly 14...

MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte — Nearly a week after a devastating cyclone, most streets have reopened in Mayotte, a tiny French island off the east coast of Africa. French President Emmanuel Macron, who...

MAGDEBURG, Germany — It took an attacker just three minutes to kill five people. It wound hundreds by ramming an SUV into a crowded holiday market Friday night, stunning Germany and shattering the...

What’s worse than being crammed in a too-tight, too-upright seat on an overnight flight? Being wide awake the entire time. Short of receiving a golden ticket (i.e., an upgrade to a lay-flat pod),...

SAN FRANCISCO — Early last year, OpenAI raised $10 billion. Just 18 months later, the company had burned through most of that money. So it raised $6.6 billion more and arranged to borrow an...

WASHINGTON — Google said Friday what it thought should change to address a ruling that it had illegally maintained a monopoly over online search: not much. Google’s proposal followed the...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada is under intense pressure to step down after the abrupt and acrimonious resignation of a key deputy on Monday highlighted his deep unpopularity after nearly a...

I get plenty of sleep, but I’m always tired. What’s going on? Figuring out why you’re tired often requires a little detective work, said Dr. Shannon Sullivan, a sleep medicine specialist at...