Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned Wednesday as head of the International Monetary Fund after explosive accusations that he had sexually attacked a housekeeper in a Midtown Manhattan hotel room.
PARIS — Christine Lagarde’s reputation for frank talk is helping to make her the leading candidate to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn as head of the I.M.F.
WASHINGTON — American and Israeli officials are struggling to balance security interests against the need to adapt to the transformation of the Arab world.
WASHINGTON — Five years before emergency vents at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant failed, an American engineer told regulators that their design was flawed.
ATEK, Uganda — Faced with unrelenting malaria, Uganda teamed up with the United States to use chemical insecticide sprays, but the effort has threatened the livelihood of some farmers.
BAGHDAD — Three explosions aimed at Iraqi security forces ripped through the divided city of Kirkuk on Thursday, killing at least 25 people and wounding scores more.
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said he thought “somebody” inside Pakistan knew of Osama bin Laden’s presence, but not the country’s leaders.
SKOLKOVO, Russia — In a news conference, President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia left one crucial question unanswered: Will he run for re-election, or make way for Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin?
TRIPOLI, Libya — Libyan officials appear to have settled on a middle course, part denial and part admission, that Shukri Ghanem may have abandoned the government’s cause.
WASHINGTON — The secretary of state is engaging in a quiet campaign to repair relations with a region that complains it has been ignored by American policy makers.