A Battle of the Bubbles: War Comes to the Prosecco Hills
VALDOBBIADENE, ITALY — Small pickup trucks carrying mounds of green grapes wound through Prosecco Road. Workers harvesting in the terraced …
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This Parasite Turns Plants Into Zombies
A mustard plant infected with a certain parasite grows strangely, its development warped by tiny invaders. Its leaves take on odd shapes, its …
New Supertalls Test the Limits, as the City Consults an Aging Playbook
The skyscrapers of New York’s so-called Billionaires’ Row in Midtown Manhattan have something in common besides eye-watering prices: The city …
Steven Mnuchin Sells a Duplex on Park Avenue for $22.5 Million
Apartments at the ultraexpensive 220 Central Park South continue to appreciate in value in resales. The financier Richard Leibovitch just sold …
Fashion Mogul Set to Face Sex-Trafficking Charges in U.S.
OTTAWA — Peter Nygard, the Canadian former fashion executive who was once given to boasting about his flamboyant lifestyle, waived a Canadian …
The Marvelous Physics of Swarming Midges
On early autumn afternoons across the temperate world, the midges are now gathering to swarm: clouds of tiny flies, wings lit by the sun like so …
He Sees Migrants as ‘Modern Slaves,’ and Has Devoted His Life to Helping Them
Sept. 24, 2021, 10:31 a.m. ET BRUSSELS — Wherever he goes in St. John the Baptist Church in Brussels, the Rev. Daniel Alliët finds himself …
London Police, Under Fire on Everard Murder, Respond With Safety Tips
LONDON — Hours after the murderer who used his status as a police officer to kidnap, rape and kill Sarah Everard was sentenced to life in prison …
A fire kills seven people in a Romanian hospital’s Covid ward.
A fire tore through the intensive care unit of a Romanian hospital where Covid patients were being treated on Friday, killing at least seven …
In Portugal, There Is Virtually No One Left to Vaccinate
Portugal’s health care system was on the verge of collapse. Hospitals in the capital, Lisbon, were overflowing and the authorities were asking …