After Months, a ‘New’ Dutch Coalition With the Same Leader and Parties
After nine months of negotiations among a group of fractious political parties after an election in the spring, the Netherlands finally has a new …
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Britain breaks a daily record for new cases.
LONDON — Britain reported 78,610 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the highest number of infections in a single day since the start of the …
Many Turks Can’t Afford Bread, and Bakers Can’t Afford to Make It
ISTANBUL — A line of glum-faced people wrapped up against the rain stood along the street outside a government bread bank in a suburb of Istanbul …
Iran Agrees to Replace Cameras at Nuclear Site but Blocks Images
BRUSSELS — Faced with a potential vote of censure by the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the nuclear watchdog of the United …
Theranos and the Logic of Start-Up Bets
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns. Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the failed blood-testing …
NASA Mission Could Blast an Asteroid That Once Menaced Earth
First it punched an asteroid. Now, a NASA spacecraft’s rampage may continue and it could blast a hole in another space rock. The OSIRIS-REX …
France Refused to Repatriate a Sick Woman Who Joined the Islamic State. She Died.
PARIS — A Frenchwoman who joined the Islamic State and had been held in a detention camp in Syria since 2019 died of health complications on …
‘Vivian Maier Developed,’ an Intimate Biography of a Very Private Photographer
If a picture were still worth a thousand words, we’d know more than enough by now about Vivian Maier, the so-called photographer nanny whose vast …
Want to Get Your Favorite Gardener a Truly Useful Gift?
I may be a home gardener, not an arborist or full-time landscaper, but I still want tools with the professional-quality performance that …
House Hunting on Mauritius: Indoor-Outdoor Flow in the Indian Ocean
A Modern Five-Bedroom Villa on Mauritius $6 MILLION This modern five-bedroom villa overlooks the southwestern coast of Mauritius, the island …