Europe agrees to ban most Russian oil imports
BRUSSELS — The European Union on Monday agreed to ban most imports of Russian oil, the harshest economic penalty yet imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, and potentially the biggest...
No Grandchild: This Indian couple decides to sue
NEW DELHI — After spending their savings to have their son trained as a pilot in the United States, Sanjeev Ranjan Prasad and Sadhana Prasad financed his lavish wedding back in India, along with a...
Real Madrid wins the Champions League
Deep down, Real Madrid does not believe in magic. Or, rather, it does not only believe in magic. It might have spent much of the last three months apparently touched by some golden light, its run to...
How to get Dolphin-smooth skin
In the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, bottlenose dolphins barrel through a soft, bushy coral. Looks like fun, but maybe it’s medicine. Dolphins may rub on specific corals and sponges to treat...
Pakistan raises fuel prices as economic crisis deepens
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s government on Friday sharply increased fuel prices for consumers, paving the way to revive a $6 billion bailout package from the International Monetary Fund and stabilize...
Sri Lanka’s protesters remain defiant
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — With no end in sight to the national economic crisis that led them to take to the streets, protesters in Sri Lanka are digging in against a president they blame for crashing the...
Sri Lanka faces its ‘most difficult time’
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — When he has turned away from a gas station in Sri Lanka’s capital Monday after waiting in line for six hours, Ravi Chandra, a tour manager, decided to return before dawn the...
Foot soldiers in India’s battle to improve public health
BAGDOLI - A health worker was making her daily rounds in a village in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan when the husband of a woman with shooting labor pains ran up to her. For months, the...
After 32 Years, McDonald’s to sell Russia business
After more than three decades in Russia, McDonald’s — an icon of U.S. lifestyle and capitalism — has put its Russia business up for sale as it works to leave the country completely. The move...
They’re all good dogs, and it has nothing to do with their breed
Don’t judge a book by its cover. Don’t judge a dog by its breed. After conducting owner surveys for 18,385 dogs and sequencing the genomes of 2,155 dogs, a group of researchers reported a...
Covid-19: How Australia saved thousands of lives
MELBOURNE, Australia — If the United States had the same COVID death rate as Australia, about 900,000 lives would have been saved. The Texas grandmother who made the perfect pumpkin pie might still...
A ruling family on the run in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — As the guests sat down for a banquet dinner last summer at the grand colonial-era home of Sri Lanka’s president, the small talk soon turned gravely serious. Addressing...
Did warming play a role in South African floods?
The heavy rains that caused catastrophic flooding in South Africa in mid-April were made twice as likely to occur by climate change, scientists said Friday. An analysis of the flooding, which...
Al Jazeera journalist killed by Israelis
Veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh was shot dead by Israeli troops Wednesday as she covered a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, an AFP photographer reported. Al Jazeera and...
The Dollar is stronger. Who wins? who loses?
These are rocky times for most investments. But it has been a wonderful stretch for the dollar. You may not have noticed if you haven’t traveled abroad and exchanged dollars for euros, yen or...
Phones do a number on our physical health
A few years ago, my best friend texted me to confess that she was worried about her texting. Her hands and fingers ached throughout the day, and the pain worsened when she used her smartphone. Could...
Climate change will accelerate viral spillovers
Over the next 50 years, climate change will drive thousands of viruses to jump from one species of mammal to another, according to a study published in Nature on Thursday. The shuffling of viruses...
Sri Lanka’s president declares state of emergency
Sri Lanka’s strongman president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has declared a state of emergency for the second time in just more than a month as his government confronts large, continuing protests over a...
Taliban impose head-to-toe coverings for women
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban government decreed Saturday that Afghan women must cover themselves from head to toe, expanding a series of onerous restrictions on women that dictate nearly every...
Covid death toll far exceeds reported by countries: WHO
In Mexico, the excess death toll during the first two years of the pandemic was twice as high as the government’s official tally of COVID-19 deaths. In Egypt, excess deaths were roughly 12 times...