Osman Abu Laban, center, who lost four relatives in the EgyptAir plane crash, after prayers for the dead at a mosque in Cairo on Friday.
Sensor data made public by a respected aviation journal, which could not be independently confirmed, indicates rapid and escalating failures in the plane’s flight control system.
Hamas is busy tunneling its way back toward Israel, and Palestinians who live over the passageways fear they will bear the cost of the eventual Israeli response.
A short-lived but telling show of unrest as security forces fire tear gas to remove demonstrators who had stormed the prime minister’s office.
The abrupt move came as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly conducted negotiations with a far-right party to join his government.
May is typically the hottest month in much of India, but 123.8 degrees is a record — and it is amplified by a drought across much of the country.
President Obama arrives as the voting will have finished, and the names not allowed to appear on the ballots tell more of a story than that of those allowed to compete.
Crimes committed by Americans have long been a source of friction, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe demanded that the United States take preventive action.
Ms. Malcorra, the foreign minister of Argentina, becomes the fifth woman among 10 candidates to succeed Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Mexico's Foreign Relations Department ruled Friday that the extradition of convicted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States can go forward.
One of the two girls rescued from Boko Haram this week was abducted from her hometown, Madagali, and was not taken in a mass kidnapping in Chibok in 2014, an advocacy group said.
The authorities in Madrid had tried to prohibit the Estelada, a Catalan flag that has become a symbol of a pro-independence movement.
Turkey’s ruling party pushed through the amendment to the Constitution on Friday, a move that is likely to lead to the ouster of Kurdish deputies.
It has nothing to do with climate change: The Arctic Circle city will be moved about two miles east so it doesn’t collapse into the mine underneath.
A judge sided with a photographer who said she had committed no crime in taking a graphic picture of a man killed in the November terrorist attacks.
Salah Abdeslam thinks he is being treated differently than other inmates, his lawyer says, and has so far declined to answer questions from investigators.
Sanaur Rahman was on a motorcycle driven by a friend when three men on another motorcycle struck him in the head, killing him instantly.
Sergei Pugachev, who just a few years ago ranked as one of Russia’s richest, best connected and most secretive magnates, said he “felt the noose tightening.”
In the letter, published in The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian, the signers argued that “our global creative success would be severely weakened by walking away.”
In their desire to leave the E.U., many Britons have found an outlet for fears about immigration and terrorism. But the cost of an exit would be high.
President Tsai Ing-wen, whose party has traditionally supported the island’s independence, called on both governments to “set aside the baggage of history.”
The island’s first female leader takes power with the economy in a slump and the region watching her first moves with a juggernaut neighbor.
Ms. Marder brought a distinctive sound to the group, a four-woman Swiss band whose admirers included Kurt Cobain.
For years, Egypt has been hit with crisis after crisis, devastating its economic lifeblood, tourism. But recently, there had been signs of a turnaround.
The move by the regional government of Castile and León comes amid tensions over the annual festival in Tordesillas and other events that animal rights activists say involves cruelty.
The discovery of Serah Luka on Thursday was announced hours after Amina Ali, another kidnapping victim who was found Tuesday, met with President Muhammadu Buhari in the capital.
The Philippine leader said that if Beijing decided to develop the Scarborough Shoal, the United States would be forced to defend the Philippines or risk losing credibility.
The agency stopped short of declaring a global health emergency, but suggested drastically expanding vaccination programs.
NATO made a formal invitation on Thursday to tiny Montenegro to join the alliance as its 29th member, a move Russia strongly objects to.
The party, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, made inroads in the country’s northeast after disappointing results in previous elections.
Reports and relatives spoke of a passenger who lost his passport but found it in time to make the flight and of a young man who was flying home after his mother’s death.
In Peru and Bolivia, drinks made from the endangered Titicaca water frog are promoted as a cure for many ailments, without scientific support.
“Female Only” security lines are at four airports, in part so women are not frisked by men, but also because cosmetics require greater scrutiny.
Tradition equates getting fat in office with fiscal imprudence or worse, so once a year, politicians have to mount the scales in public.
Therapy, medication and yoga couldn’t cure my anxiety. Maybe Rafael could.
More than two years after Putin annexed the peninsula, the world has turned a blind eye.
Current and former government ministers are taking a stand against the sexism of their male colleagues.
Terrorists killed more than 200 people in a surge of bombings across Baghdad over the past week.
Our correspondents talked to academics and writers who lived through the Cultural Revolution. Here are their stories.
On the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution, Didi Kirsten Tatlow knows she’s not the only person in China who’s dreaming about the Chairman.
Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s president, is facing removal from office. Here is a step-by-step explanation of the proceedings.
Ms. Rubin has spent much of her career covering Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.
The New York Times and Thomson Reuters shared the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of Europe’s refugee crisis. Jessica Rinaldi of the Boston Globe won the feature photography prize for her story of a boy who endured abuse at the hands of those he trusted.
The New York Times’s Cairo bureau chief reported from Aleppo, Syria, where inhabitants try to carry on despite a civil war’s inescapable reality.
Britain will hold a referendum on June 23 on whether to leave the European Union, a decision nicknamed “Brexit.”
As it expanded across Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State destroyed many archaeological sites, looting them for profit and damaging some for propaganda.
Two years before the Paris and Brussels assaults, a special branch of the group was churning out smaller attacks that the authorities repeatedly discounted as isolated or random acts.
Once called a mystery disease, everyone in Brazil is aware of the Zika virus, which appears to cause microcephaly, or abnormally small heads, in babies.
China has been feverishly piling sand onto reefs in the South China Sea, creating seven new islets in the region and straining already taut geopolitical tensions.
