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MELBOURNE, Australia — As the sad scene now playing out on an Australian beach attests, rescuing an animal larger than a car is no easy matter. On Wednesday, about 230 pilot whales were stranded...

When the state-owned factory where Hesham el-Atar worked for 15 years was liquidated this month, he had a feeling it was linked to international pressure on the Egyptian government to reduce its role...

LONDON — The flowers have been cleared. Union Jacks no longer fly at half-staff. Ads have replaced Queen Elizabeth II’s image on bus shelters. A day after burying their revered monarch, Britons...

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II will be laid to rest Monday, after a majestic state funeral at Westminster Abbey and a grand procession to Windsor Castle that is expected to draw a vast crowd,...

— One by one, they stood before the coffin, straightening their backs, squaring their shoulders, pulling in their shirttails. Most bowed their heads, some curtsied, and others blew kisses. Many...

LONDON — He’s been famous since day one, a tabloid staple as the firstborn child of Prince Charles and the glamorous young Princess Diana.Since then, Prince William has lived his life in public....

UNO NATIONAL PARK, India — Eight Namibian cheetahs arrived in India Saturday, decades after their local extinction, in an ambitious project to reintroduce the big cats that have divided experts on...

Roger Federer is the most famous living citizen of Switzerland. “It’s not even close,” Nicolas Bideau, a Swiss official in charge of promoting the country’s image abroad, once told me. ...

A New York woman was sentenced to four months in federal prison after spitting on a passenger, then shoving a flight attendant on an American Airlines flight in February 2021, a year that saw a record...

KYIV, Ukraine — A day after routing Russian forces in a lightning advance that seized hundreds of square miles and a strategic town in the northeast, Ukraine claimed additional territory Sunday in...

ISLAMABAD — Violent swells have swept away roads, homes, schools, and hospitals across much of Pakistan. Millions of people have been driven from their homes, struggling through waist-deep, fetid...

Road trips are never easy, but they are far more unpleasant when your child repeatedly vomits in the back seat because they’re carsick. I know, because that’s what happens whenever I drive more...

Over the past decade, September has been the month when Apple revealed its latest iPhone. The company served up swaggering advances in technology, year after year, that propelled its business as Apple...

In the United States, luxury-car buyers are snapping up Teslas and other electric cars that cost more than $60,000, and even relatively cheap models cost more than $25,000. In India, those are all...

LONDON — Three weeks after Liz Truss became Britain’s top diplomat in 2021, she told a Conservative Party conference that her country need not compete for the affection of the United States....

Q: I’m tired all the time and feel unproductive at work. How do I know if I’m depressed or burned out? The exhaustion, when it hits, is all-consuming. Your inbox chimes and you want to fling...

Florian Fangohr waffled for about a year over whether to buy an Apple Watch SE as a gift. The smartwatch cost $279, and he worried that its recipient would immediately break or lose it. In May, he...

NEW DELHI — Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the former Sri Lankan president who was forced to flee the island nation and relinquish power after months of protest over the economy’s being run into the ground,...

Iraq sank deeper into political chaos Monday after influential cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced he was retiring from politics and at least 12 of his supporters were shot and killed by government...

While the internet has made it easier to plan a trip yourself — and see how much you’re saving — it also demands you slog through hundreds of pages of destination research, hotel, and home...