TUNIS — The prime minister said he would dissolve the Islamist-led government after an opposition figure, Chokri Belaid, was assassinated and thousands took to the streets in protest.
LONDON — The report found that shockingly bad care and inhumane treatment at a hospital in the Midlands led to hundreds of unnecessary deaths.
The United States blacklisted several organizations in Iran, widening the effort to pressure the government over its nuclear program and human rights abuses.
A new exhibition of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart portraits aims to focus attention on what he really looked like. Above, a painting of the Mozarts from the late 1700s.
PARIS — The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to overhaul the region’s troubled fisheries policy to end decades of overfishing.
TOKYO — A conservation group found that Japan stepped up subsidies even as consumption of whale meat slumped.
The discovery might advance knowledge of how life could survive on other planets, and it offers the first glimpse of a vast subglacial ecosystem of microscopic life.
KABUL, Afghanistan — General John R. Allen is leaving a war that has become as much about damage control and crisis diplomacy as fighting the Taliban.
LONDON — Immigration authorities went after people suspected of being members of gangs that smuggle people across or under the English Channel and into Britain.
CARACAS, Venezuela — An Iranian construction company contended that a check for nearly $70 million in Venezuelan currency found in the carry-on bag of a former economy minister had a mundane purpose.
PARIS — France renewed a promise that its soldiers would begin returning home within weeks, just as new hostilities erupted with Islamist militants.
CAIRO — Two years after President Hosni Mubarak fell, Egyptian street activists like Mohamed Mokbel say they are still fighting for the democratic goals of the Arab Spring revolt.
Saying it needed to take drastic steps to stem billions in losses, the Postal Service announced a sweeping change in how it operates.
“Clearly the Salafis feel they can intimidate those seeking freedom into a tacit endorsement of tyrannical rule,” writes Marcos.
“I find Facebook’s privacy intrusions completely obnoxious, especially as they take away more and more of the options that attracted so many of us,” writes Elaine Marie.
Nigeria and Burkina Faso will play Sunday in the Africa Cup of Nations.
In the world’s biggest democracy, there is no true freedom to speak and write.
Inside Microsoft’s new tablet is a Windows PC — with some disappointments.
Iran’s leaders are concerned with internal turmoil, not Hagel.
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In Athens, people reached out for fruits and vegetables distributed by farmers during a protest.
Agribusinesses are using land in poor countries for crops that are exported and do not improve food security.
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