Hosni Mubarak’s traditional foes have been displaced by the leaderless tens of thousands of young Egyptians who turned out this week to demand an end to his 30-year rule.
The most popular fast food in Berlin, currywurst, a pile of pork sausage, drenched with ketchup and sprinkled with curry powder, embodies the city’s contradictions.
ZHUHAI, China — Dong Mingzhu, president of China's air-conditioning powerhouse Gree, is a self-made woman in a country where “men are in charge, politically.”
Is Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, a puppet master of the news media? He would like you to think so. But The Times’s dealings with him reveal a different story.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The opening of Parliament signals the beginning of a potentially more precarious period in President Hamid Karzai’s relations with Afghanistan’s power brokers.
LONDON — The News of the World tabloid said it found evidence linking the editor, Ian Edmondson, to allegations that the newspaper illegally intercepted celebrities’ telephone messages.
During his 40 years presiding over a Roman Catholic diocese in Chiapas, Bishop Ruiz cast light on abuses suffered by the Indians and sought to bring them into the church as equals with other Mexicans.
WASHINGTON — Even as their leaders insist on the need for military cuts, divisions have opened among Republicans about how to chop Pentagon spending that comes to more than a half trillion dollars a year.
“People want better living conditions. And the choice is not, and I say is not, between a secular tyranny or a religious tyranny,” writes BGP in Cairo.
“I grew up in India as a loyal listener to the BBC World Service. It's the most powerful tool that the British government has in its chest in promoting British values and culture,” writes Ajit in Calif..