BEIRUT, Lebanon — Kofi Annan, the United Nations special envoy, arrived in Syria and began negotiations, and the chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff warned that more atrocities could make military intervention more likely.
BRUSSELS — Poor marks could eventually mean fines or other penalties for members that do not make adequate efforts to balance their books.
CAIRO — A fire broke out at the presidential campaign headquarters of Ahmed Shafik, Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, after he had been confirmed as one of two candidates for the runoff election.
BEIJING — One of China’s largest hosts of Twitter-like microblogs decreed new punishments on Monday for users who post comments that its editors deem inappropriate.
BEIJING — The 73-year-old man, Ya Weilin, above right, hanged himself to protest the Chinese government’s refusal to account for his son’s death in the military assault on Tiananmen Square in 1989.
MADRID — Investors fretted over how the government would find more money to bail out Bankia, the country’s largest mortgage lender, and other troubled banks.
The program, similar to one used by the U.S. military to treat Iraq war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, aimed to fill a void in mental health services for the city’s shellshocked residents.
A blaze raged through the upscale Villaggio Mall in Doha, above. The fire, which killed 19, including 13 children, was centered around a children’s play area in the mall.
PFLUGERVILLE, Tex. — Every year for the last four years, the men of the Second Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment, which fought in Iraq, visit the grave of one of their fallen comrades.
JAKARTA — The franchise’s strategy has been to create “hang-outs” by incorporating Wi-Fi, seating and low-cost, ready-made food.
LONDON — A man broke into Britain’s inquiry into press ethics and accused Tony Blair, the former prime minister, of being in the pay of JPMorgan Chase.
Capt. Rachel Odom covers thousands of miles of eastern Afghanistan as the lone physical therapist serving soldiers in a long-deployed infantry division.
New research suggests the existing models of Earth’s core may not explain its complexities.
Researchers may have solved a piece of the puzzle surrounding how fish “smell” harm.
The T.S.A. offers a list of weapons and other prohibited items in luggage.
The people running Russia and its cities — and its garbage disposal — act as though they’re not planning to stick around past tomorrow.
A relative unknown lifted the Kolkata Knight Riders over Chennai.
A Viewfinder post rounding up global opinion on whether the revolution has failed Egyptians in light of the presidential candidates.
A Venus transit occurs in pairs, eight years apart, about once a century.
At a ceremony marking boundaries, noting what India and Pakistan share.
Do clothes that claim protection from the sun do what they promise?
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