The Week in Pictures: April 29-May 5
Mitt Romney campaigned in New Hampshire and New York City, while President Obama held his first official campaign events in Ohio and Virginia.
Opera, of all the art forms, is singularly associated with food, whether because of the appetites of well-girthed singers or the sensual pleasures celebrated in its music.
Mitt Romney campaigned in New Hampshire and New York City, while President Obama held his first official campaign events in Ohio and Virginia.
What would Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada have to say to one another? The Costume Institute exhibit hazards a guess.
Like the Easter parade, the Kentucky Derby is where you’ll find the largest concentration of heavily adorned head pieces.
François Hollande defeated President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday, becoming the first Socialist elected president of France since François Mitterrand.
The Knicks’ 89-87 victory ended a drought of 11 years without a playoff win, and prevented a sweep by the Heat.
Michael French has frontotemporal dementia, for which there is no cure or treatment. As his condition deteriorated, his wife, Ruth, had to move him to a nursing home, where she spends most days.
Russian riot police beat protesters with batons and arrested dozens at a demonstration in Moscow against Vladimir Putin.
Photos from a performance by the Studio Company of American Ballet Theater’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School.
“The Life of Jesus Christ,” a three-and-a-half-hour play with a cast of 70, made its debut this weekend in a three-day run at the Louisiana State Penitentiary.
Highlights include fashion choices, Derby pagentry and I’ll Have Another’s surprise victory at Churchill Downs.
The rapper, a key member of the Odd Future hip-hop collective, has returned to Los Angeles from a stint in Samoa to resume his career as an emerging star.
The United States military has brought lessons from the past decade of conflict to the drug war, constructing remote base camps with little public notice but with the support of the Honduran government.
Dine in the clouds, visit one of the most surveilled spots in the world and have some tea in this tour of China’s gateways.
Fascinators were the highlight last week of the 30th Frederick Law Olmsted luncheon of the Women's Committee of the Central Park Conservancy.
As the country moves to tap one of the world’s last great reserves of hydroelectric power, the Amazon basin, strikes and worker uprisings at the biggest projects are producing delays and cost overruns.
The Capitals beat the Rangers, 3-2, in Game 4 of the teams’ Eastern Conference semifinal series at Washington.
Culinary wizardry, architectural marvels and more await in the Catalan city by the sea.
From the street outside Barneys on Madison Avenue, one would never guess at the power lunches that are taking place above at Fred’s. Diners spotted there include Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christine C. Quinn and Jonathan Tisch.
These women (and nearly all of them are women) who sweat through double and occasionally triple workouts at different boutique fitness outfits in the same day aren’t major-league athletes or required to look good for a living.
See where the writer lived and worked during the most productive period of his life.
NOT every bride or bridegroom has a green thumb, the desire to maintain a garden or even the luxury of outdoor space. But a touch of green is within everyone’s reach.
Considered the best closer in baseball history, Mariano Rivera has more saves than any other pitcher.
Facing a challenge from the right, the pro-Western president, Boris Tadic, will ask Serbian voters for a fresh mandate in voting on Sunday.
In 2008, Barack Obama became the first Democrat to win Virginia in more than 40 years, in part because of inroads he made in the Richmond area and growing suburbs in the southern part of the state.
A funeral service was held on Friday for the seven relatives who died in a Bronx car crash.
Influence in New York is now wielded by a larger and more diverse array of people. Here’s a look at who is at the top and who may be on the way, as identified by the reporters of The New York Times.
As chaos persists in the city’s streets, Cairo’s subway remains a model of efficiency, order and dependability for the three million people who ride it every day.
Scores of Palestinian prisoners have joined a hunger strike that officials say now counts more than 1,500 participants.
A new National Park Service shuttle runs near the estate where Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt lived.
In the news: Back pain, premature births and strength training. Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
Quince trees, once de rigueur in America’s Colonial gardens, fell out of favor over the years. But some growers are still very attached to them.
An art professor and preservationist combined history and modernity in two traditional wooden structures.
Marian Gaborik scored the winning goal in the third overtime as the Rangers took a two-games-to-one lead in the Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Capitals.
Nicholas Kirkwood to open store in the meatpacking district; South Beach-inspired spring wear; and French Art Nouveau carved-horn jewelry.
Once an inescapable facet of 1950s country clubs, a kiltie is a long fringed tongue of leather that attaches to a golf shoe’s inside tongue and folds over the laces.
Wylie Dufresne, one of the most influential culinary minds on the planet, unveils dishes from the reinvented menu at his WD-50.
Airports and adjacent hotels are being renovated with an eye toward creating a more pleasing environment for the traveler.
The Chinese government kept its currency from appreciating during the financial crisis but allowed it to rise in 2010.
A look at the day in sports included cars on a cycling track, the heights of the X-Games and a musical Sepp Blatter.
With airlines cutting back direct service to small and midsize airports, passengers trying to save money are left with longer and more complicated flights.
How the auto industry, automakers and the most popular cars and trucks fared in March.
A sampling of the connections among Aaron and Bryce Dessner, curators of the Crossing Brooklyn Ferry festival, and some of the artists performing in it.
Tharima Ahmed, who had dreamed of the senior prom since her freshman year, organized a high school prom that held to Muslim beliefs.
President Obama made a surprise trip to Kabul on Tuesday to sign a landmark strategic partnership agreement between the United States and Afghanistan.
Inside the Sichuan restaurant in Midtown that’s meant to evoke Shanghai before World War II.
State troopers in Springfield, Mass., are combating gang violence using the counterinsurgency strategies they were trained to use in Iraq.
Scientists want to know how the balance between warming and cooling clouds will change as climate change proceeds.
At any moment, about 60 percent of the earth is covered by clouds, which have a huge influence on the climate.
Casinos opening at a growing number of racetracks have recalibrated the age-old economic equations of the horse-racing game.
As the popularity of horse racing has diminished, racetracks like Aqueduct in New York have turned to casinos for additional revenue.
Hosted by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the weekend-long festival celebrated traditional and contemporary Japanese culture.
Highlights from the Capitals’ 3-2 victory over the Rangers at Madison Square Garden in Game 2 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series.
Action from Miami’s 104-94 victory over the Knicks at American Airlines Arena, as the Heat took a 2-0 series lead.
Bloomberg and Vanity Fair Hold Star-Studded Party in Washington.
Lillian Jacobs has lived on East 84th Street in Yorkville for 100 years. The area has maintained its charm and is home to many longtimers.
Locomotives dubbed “Italo” started speeding around 186 miles an per hour on Saturday, opening a new chapter in European rail travel.
In the driven, intensely competitive atmosphere that is Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., a popular course teaches employees how to defuse emotions and tap their inner serenity and resilience.
The cascading blossoms remind me of what I saw in Paris last month: the elongated look of women in stripes.
Police unleashed tear gas and chemical-laced water Saturday at thousands of demonstrators who staged one of Malaysia’s largest street rallies in years, demanding fair rules for national elections expected soon.
Several highly recognizable works up for sale at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips de Pury over the next two weeks.
Mitt Romney decisively won contests held Tuesday, in Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Newt Gingrich announced that he would suspend his presidential campaign.
The images of the day include a title fight in boxing, a judo tournament and baseball action.
A look at Game 1 of the first-round playoff series between the Knicks and the host Miami Heat, won by Miami, 100-67.
Piermont, a village draped down the Hudson River face of the Tallman Mountains, evokes a Mediterranean hillside, or maybe Sausalito, Calif.
The new economics of horse racing are making an always-dangerous game even more so, as lax oversight puts animal and rider at risk.
Melodeeman, a thoroughbred, raced for six years, through surgery, six owners and 47 races. He broke down and was euthanized on the track on Jan. 21, 2010.
Coronado Heights, a 4-year-old thoroughbred who received a diagnosis of early degenerative joint disease, broke down and was euthanized on the track at Aqueduct on Feb. 25. Below, an illustration of the drugs and dosages given to Coronado Heights the week before he broke down.
As Mitt Romney moves toward locking up the Republican nomination, take a look back at the campaigns that were.
Almost 50,000 projects have sought financing on Kickstarter since the site began on April 28, 2009. About half successfully reached their fund-raising goals. Each dot represents how much a project raised by its deadline.
Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic, demonstrates and discusses the role of a conductor.
The players on the Carroll Academy girls basketball team have little experience with organized sports and myriad troubles outside of school.
Times reporters offer analysis of the arguments before the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the 2010 health care law.
Explore every nook and cranny of President Obama’s federal budget proposal.
A series profiling people who are functioning normally despite severe mental illness and have chosen to speak out about their struggles.
Apple’s iPhone is a model of American ingenuity, but most of its components are manufactured somewhere else, leading to the decline of other kinds of jobs.
Interactive map of health violations at restaurants in New York
Derek Boogaard fought his way to center ice as one of the N.H.L’s most feared fighters. But the role exposed him to repeated head traumas.
A Good Samaritan kidney donation by a California man began a progression of kidney retrievals and transplants, as 30 donors gave their organs to 30 strangers on behalf of their loved ones.
On Nov. 1, after eight years of renovations, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened its new Islamic wing.
The 317 Apple patents that list Steven P. Jobs among the group of inventors offer a glimpse at his legendary say over the minute details of the company’s products.
Scenes of grief and consolation played out in Norway as the nation attempted to recover from the scars of the massacre on July 22.
From building plans and archival images, we reconstruct the twin towers the way they stood before the attacks.
Readers shared their expectations about their job status, the future of the economy and the prospects for the next generation.
A selection of audio recordings from the morning of September 11, 2001.
Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teenagers talk about their lives in this weeklong series.
President Obama’s announcement Sunday night about Bin Laden’s death produced an outpouring of reaction. But has the killing of the most wanted man in terrorism made the world safer?
Interactive panoramas of devastation in two locations in Joplin, Mo., compared to images of the same locations before the storm.
The radical, syndicated program “Radiolab” creates striking sound effects to communicate big ideas. Listen to excerpts in this sonic gallery.
Compare satellite images of areas of Japan before and after the disaster.
Compare the proposed street grid for Manhattan, from 1811, with the current layout.
Test your strategy against the computer in this rock-paper-scissors game illustrating basic artificial intelligence.
The closer has confounded hitters with mostly one pitch: his signature cutter.
Photographs from Russia, France, Greece and Germany.
Listen to New York Times editors, critics and reporters discuss the day’s news and features.