BEIRUT — An explosion tore through a secret meeting of one of Syria's strongest and most enduring rebel groups on Tuesday, killing a dozen of its top leaders, including its head, and striking another blow against the forces seeking to topple President Bashar ...

OTTAWA — Some Canadians, particularly Prime Minister Stephen Harper, have long been taken with the story of the disastrous attempt by the British explorer Sir John Franklin to sail and map the Northwest Passage. So it was not surprising that Mr. Harper ...

The family of Michael Schumacher, the 45-year-old former Formula One champion, said Tuesday that he had been moved from a hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, to the family estate 25 miles away on Lake Geneva. They also said that efforts to rehabilitate ...

President Obama on Friday. The president was harshly criticized for confessing two weeks ago that he did not have a strategy for dealing with the militants in Syria. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the ...

WASHINGTON — President Obama will address the nation at 9 p.m. on Wednesday about how the United States plans to confront the threat from the Sunni extremist group, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. In the speech, Mr. Obama will lay out a strategy for ...

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Jeffrey P. Bezos, Amazon's founder and chief executive, announcing the Fire phone in June. Credit Ted S. Warren/Associated Press. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story Share This Page.

The company was not the first to create a digital music player when it introduced the iPod 13 years ago. But the device, with its click wheel and slick integration with the iTunes software that ran on a computer, took digital music into the mainstream. Nor will ...

An image taken from YouTube shows what appears to be the first known Chinese jihadist, called Bo Wang, fighting with rebels in Syria. Credit via YouTube. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story ...

The governor of Nevada and Tesla Motors, the electric car company with gigantic ambitions, will be “making an affirmative announcement” on Thursday about the construction of a huge battery factory, a person involved in the negotiations said on Wednesday.

Hopes for a cease-fire agreement in eastern Ukraine lifted stock markets on Wednesday as investors hoped it would lead to a political situation where the West and Russia might withdraw their economic sanctions. KEEPING SCORE In early trading, the Dow ...

The website has quickly emerged as the go-to destination for watching video games, drawing tens of millions of viewers each month. On Monday, that success led to a huge payday for the company's founders, as Amazon said it had reached a deal to buy ...

Blacks and whites nationally have different opinions about the response of Jay Nixon, the governor of Missouri, to the events that followed the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo. on Aug. 9.

Protesters and police officers lined West Florissant Avenue on Tuesday in Ferguson, Mo. Credit Eric Thayer for The New York Times. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story Share This Page.

EDGARTOWN, Mass. — A United States Special Operations team tried and failed to rescue James Foley and other Americans held hostage in Syria during a secret mission earlier this summer authorized by President Obama, senior administration officials ...

JERUSALEM — Rockets fired from Gaza landed in Israel Tuesday afternoon, breaking a five-day cease-fire between Israel and Hamas militants hours before it was set to expire, the Israeli military said. The Israel Defense Force said the rockets landed in open ...

Wall Street markets edged higher on Thursday after conciliatory comments by the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, eased concerns about the country's tense situation with Ukraine and overshadowed signs of weakness in the European economy.

CAIRO — Palestinian leaders said early Thursday that in the last moments before the midnight expiration of their cease-fire with Israel in Gaza, the two sides had agreed to hold their fire for an additional five days to continue talks about a more durable truce.

TEL AVIV — When the current resurgence of fighting eventually dies down again and both sides are brought back to the negotiating table, Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel will have two paths before him to bring an end to the four-week-old conflict in Gaza.

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