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RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s Supreme Court said it would investigate former president Jair Bolsonaro for inspiring the far-right mob that invaded and ransacked the country’s Congress, Supreme...

The New York Times has listed Salalah among 52 tourist destinations to visit this year. The only other place from the Arab world to feature in the list is Tassili n’Ajjer of Algeria. Other featured...

The death of his mother, Diana. His decades chafing under the eye of the British press. His marriage to Meghan Markle and his rift with the royal family. His drug use, his years in the army, even his...

Thousands of supporters of Brazil’s ousted former president, Jair Bolsonaro, stormed Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court, and presidential offices Sunday to protest what they falsely claim was a...

Over hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, the human shoulder has undergone changes to make it more versatile — allowing our arms to reach over our heads, behind our backs and swing in full...

The clock was ticking. Weaving at high speeds through the traffic of Hyderabad, a city in southern India, Shivam Tirupati Niralwar, 29, ran through red lights and drove into oncoming traffic. He...

On Dec. 14, 50 years ago, two men woke up on humanity’s last day on the moon. Nobody would be back to the moon anytime soon. Plans for additional Apollo missions had been scrapped two years...

LONDON — In recent months, as Britain has healed from mourning its queen, the beginning of a new reign has started to show in the country’s daily life. England’s World Cup team sang “God...

If you were asked to explain the difference between terms such as whole grain, multigrain and whole wheat, would you be able to? If not, you’re not alone. A new study published on Nov. 30 in...

LONDON — Nurses across Britain went on strike Thursday demanding a raise and better working conditions, the first such walkout by nurses in the history of the country’s revered National Health...

AL KHOR, Qatar — Just before dusk in a desolate stretch of the Qatari desert, Saqr al-Humaidi slipped on a worn leather glove and readied his falcon for its daily training. Coaxing the bird out of...

TOKYO — In many ways, Yogendra Puranik is an immigrant success story. Puranik, 45, joined the initial wave of Indian tech workers who went to Japan in the early 2000s. He became a Japanese...

A 1,300-year-old gold-and-gemstone necklace that was recently discovered in an ancient gravesite in England may have belonged to a woman who was an early Christian leader, according to experts...

For nearly 100 years, drivers have been listening to AM radio, an American institution crackling with news, traffic, weather, sports, and an eclectic variety of other programs. But that dashboard...

It began with truffles. White ones, from Alba, shaved over a butter-daubed wedge of dough, then ditto with a heady black variety from Irpinia. Seated in the courtyard of the famed Naples pizzeria...

The Tuesday before every Thanksgiving, Aaron Karo and Matt Ritter, both 43, go out to dinner with seven men whom they befriended as second graders in Plainview, New York. At the dinner, one of the...

LONDON — Oil officials from OPEC and Russia will meet on Sunday to consider production levels, just hours before the European Union begins an embargo of Russian oil and as the Group of 7...

The fire began with a faulty power strip in a bedroom on the 15th floor of an apartment building in China’s far west. Firefighters spent three hours putting it out — too slow to prevent at least...

Shimea Hooks was so focused on her carry-on full of pumped breast milk that at first she didn’t understand what the agent from the Transportation Security Administration was saying. Hooks, 32,...

We were stepping carefully through a dripping wet forest at the edge of the beach, at night. Above us, 150-foot-tall trees towered, their canopy blotting out the stars. I could hear bats chittering...