The rise of Bank Rossiya, controlled by close friends of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, illustrates how he has enriched loyalists whose influence over the economy has helped him maintain his iron grip on power.
The police used tear gas and pepper spray to clear pro-democracy demonstrators on Sunday from the city’s government offices.
Thirty-one climbers were found apparently dead on Mount Ontake, a day after it erupted. The volcano had been busy with hikers who had gone to see the first signs of autumn.
With the proliferation of residents’ videos of confrontations with the law, more police agencies are equipping officers to record their version of events.
Nancy Borowick for The New York Times
Hana Beshara founded one of the most popular sites for illegal TV and movie downloads. To the online community, she was its queen. To the government, she was simply a thief.
An artist manager and others are working to save the studio where Dolly Parton recorded “Jolene,” a space scheduled to be leveled to make room for condos.
In 20 years of living onstage in New York City, Derek Jeter was never caught in a compromising position and played his best defense in front of his locker.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has stirred hopes and excitement in sections of India’s large and far-reaching diaspora, is speaking at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.
A number of gay men have fled Nigeria and sought asylum in the United States, settling into a Brooklyn residence where they seek to live freely and openly.
It took years for Ms. Huffington and Mr. Bryant to learn that unwinding can be as valuable as driving hard toward their goals. Meditation is now an important part of their lives.
We will never stop dawdling, so why should we feel guilty about it?
People on the streets, and executives in boardrooms, are helping to move the fight against global warming forward.
Consumers must do the math to figure out the real price, but that’s not always easy.
The dissolution of order in both nations should offer sobering lessons for the Obama administration as it engages in a new war.
Students need to know why science and religion cannot be reconciled.
This week’s properties include a West Village studio, a Sutton area co-op and a townhouse in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
