World
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A.S. Byatt, Scholar Who Found Literary Fame With Fiction, Dies at 87
One of Britain’s most ambitious and intellectual novelists, she won the Booker Prize with “Possession,” her 1990 tale of illicit…
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The N.Y.C. Neighborhood Where Families Are Filling Up Empty Offices
Five financial district buildings are being turned into housing, including the country’s largest such conversion. Will it work elsewhere in…
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If Your Child Is Addicted to TikTok, This May Be the Cure
Children are suffering under the weight of social media. New York lawmakers believe they have a strategy to halt the…
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Santos Was a Big Spender at Sephora and Spas
A report by the House Ethics Committee detailed some of the ways the Long Island congressman spent donors’ money.
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Celebrity Campaign Shines Spotlight on New Zealand Bird Contest
An endorsement from the comedian John Oliver led to a spike in votes for the eventual winner, the pūteketeke.
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Iceland Is in a Holding Pattern as It Awaits a Volcanic Eruption
As the country prepares for a possible volcanic eruption, it’s working to protect a power plant that serves 30,000 people.
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Russia Sentences Activist to Penal Colony for Antiwar Notes on Price Tags
A court sentenced Aleksandra Y. Skochilenko to seven years in a penal colony, in one of the most prominent cases…
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China Wants to Bulldoze Old Neighborhoods to Revive the Economy
The halting revitalization of one “urban village” in Shenzhen shows the challenges of fixing a national property crisis after years…
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A Dying Anticorruption Crusader Considers His Life’s Own Misdeeds
Chuwit Kamolvisit has enthralled Thailand for decades with revelations of police and political corruption. But his own compromised past, including…
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Friday Briefing
Israel’s search of a major hospital in Gaza.