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KATHMANDU, Nepal — Before he aspired to Kathmandu’s highest office, Balendra Shah appeared on the city’s rooftops, a singer facing off in rap battles or filming music videos. His songs, which...

KAYSERI, Türkiye — Memis Akbulut, a cellphone salesperson, listed the reasons that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could count on his support in elections Sunday that could drastically change the...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Monday that it would seek to require airlines to compensate passengers for lengthy flight delays and cancellations that are within their control. ...

Q: I eat spicy food almost every day. I love the taste and the tingle, but I wonder: How is all that heat affecting my body? Eating spicy food can produce a variety of physiological reactions, like...

In the first days of Sudan’s war, the two university students felt helpless. They locked themselves in their apartment in the capital, Khartoum, glued to Twitter as the battle unfolded. They...

Back-to-back shootings in Serbia this week, one in a school, have stunned the population and brought global attention to gun control in a country with one of the world’s highest rates of gun...

Before becoming president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. warned that “if you let the US come in, you make China your enemy.” But as he sat at the White House on Monday, President Joe...

With the battle for control of Sudan entering its third week, healthcare services are rapidly unraveling in the nation’s capital, Khartoum, a grim consequence of the brutal fighting that has...

ROME — If Italy’s tourism ministry hoped to make waves with a new marketing campaign promoting the country’s many wonders, it certainly hit the mark, though not, perhaps, in the way the...

ZIROBWE, Uganda — First the bad news. The two types of coffee that most of us drink — Arabica and robusta — are at grave risk in the era of climate change. Now the good news. Farmers in one...

Not long into the pandemic, Americans were eager to tip their front-line-working baristas and servers. But now that tip fatigue has set in — driven by the proliferation of payment tablets that...

In the 12 days since war broke out in Sudan, the residents in the capital of Khartoum have learned to survive, living side by side with armed fighters. Civilians negotiate with a feared...

Don Lemon is out on CNN. In an announcement that Lemon said left him “stunned,” CNN on Monday declared an end to its longtime relationship with Lemon, a star anchor who was a fixture of the...

On March 20, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network released its annual World Happiness Report, which rates well-being in countries around the world. For the sixth year in a row,...

Over the past year, the injectable diabetes medication Ozempic steamrolled through TikTok, talk shows, and tabloids as people raved about using it off-label to lose weight. Then the hype intensified...

To buy or to wait? Given the wild fluctuations of airfare prices, that is a frugal flyer’s persistent dilemma. A fare found today may tick up tomorrow, double next week or fall. Now Google and...

Despite the cancellation years ago of China’s harsh, Mao-era restriction on families to a single child, and even after more recent incentives urging families to have more children, China’s...

KARACHI, Pakistan — The crowds begin to form at dawn. They swell through the day as hundreds of men and women swathed in bright purple and pink scarves wait outside the charity’s gates in Karachi,...

Fighting in the Sudanese capital raged into the early hours of Sunday after a day of deadly battles between paramilitaries and the regular army that left at least 56 people dead and nearly 600...

Jade Akintola and Brandon Thomas Brown are balancing three competing financial priorities — preparing for the birth of their first child, saving up for a down payment on their first home and...