CARACAS — Ecuador said on Thursday that it would grant asylum to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who has been holed up in its embassy in London seeking to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault accusations.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The United States troops along with three Afghan soldiers were killed on Thursday when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan, officials said.
Mitt Romney’s statement on Thursday was the first direct response to attacks from the Obama campaign and Democrats who have suggested he paid little or no tax in years before 2010.
KARACHI, Pakistan — The attack on the Minhas air force base, where some of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons are thought to be stored, left nine people dead.
Peugeot’s crisis is showing the contradictions of President François Hollande’s campaign promises. Above, Peugeot workers protested in Paris in July.
MARIKANA, South Africa — The police fired on machete-wielding workers engaged in a strike at a platinum mine in Marikana, South Africa. The country’s main news agency reported 18 deaths.
AURORA, Colo. — Workers at one of the emergency rooms where many victims of a mass shooting arrived looked back with pride at their performance and horror at the event.
After spending a week on assignment in Mérida, two travel writers return to live there, turning an old home into a contemporary oasis.
Despite billions of dollars in reconstruction aid, the most pressing need in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake — safe housing — has been unmet, leaving hundreds of thousands in increasingly wretched tent camps.
The violent rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad’s government has left peacemaking efforts paralyzed.
TOKYO — The 14 Chinese planted Chinese flags on one of a group of Japanese islands claimed by China and Taiwan.
Shares fell amid fears that early investors eligible to offload their stocks would create a market surplus.
In the 1920s, The New York Times made a convention of capturing artists with their works and their subjects. The images show art imitating art imitating life.
Scores of investors rushed to capture a piece of Internet start-ups like Facebook and Zynga in early 2011. Nearly all those bets have soured.
Venezuela is almost free of illiteracy? True. Thanks to Chávez? False.
Thanks to help from his friends, 2 Chainz is hip-hop’s rising star.
In North Korea, a change in the face of the leadership and of the capital city, but not of policy.
Bared flesh is common in modern dance. And sometimes — infrequently — it succeeds.
Rather than quell communal violence, the government of Myanmar is further stigmatizing the Rohingyas.
Patients are often left confused as doctors pile on the dos and don’ts during visits.
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