KIRYAT MALACHI, Israel — Three Israeli civilians were killed on Thursday when a rocket hit an apartment block, the first casualties on Israel’s side, as a ferocious assault against Hamas and other militant groups entered its second day.
LONDON — The British oil company said it would plead guilty to 14 criminal charges in connection with the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; two employees also faced manslaughter charges, an official said.
BEIJING — Xi Jinping gave his first speech as general secretary of the Communist Party, impressing many Chinese by avoiding slogans but giving no indication as to whether he favors fundamental reforms.
ISTANBUL — Turkey recognized the newly formed Syrian rebel coalition as the legitimate leader of Syria on Thursday.
Frederick W. Humphries II took the initial complaint from a woman who received e-mails accusing her of inappropriate behavior toward David H. Petraeus.
Lord Alistair McAlpine, who was wrongly implicated in child sexual abuse on a BBC program, said in an interview that he should have been called before the segment aired.
LELYSTAD, the Netherlands — The Dutch have been hailed for their ideas about defenses from water, but replicating their success would require substantial changes.
BEIJING — The departing general secretary of the party, Hu Jintao, prepared to hand power on Thursday to Xi Jinping, son of a revered revolutionary leader who was also an architect of China’s economic transformation.
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LONDON — The corporation established elaborate procedures that placed more formal responsibility for delicate decisions in the hands not of individual managers, but of rigid hierarchies.
The changes streamline rules that analysts say discourage small businesses from hiring workers and instead push millions of Mexicans into the underground economy.
Mr. Kumalo used his journalism experience to become a chronicler of the cruelties of apartheid and South Africa’s eventual emergence as a biracial democracy.
JERUSALEM — The Foreign Ministry suggests that if the Palestinians succeed in winning enhanced status at the United Nations, Israel may cancel the Oslo peace accords and move to oust the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.
In a conference call Wednesday afternoon with his national finance committee, Mitt Romney said that the president had followed the “old playbook” of wooing specific interest groups.
On One Direction’s new album, “Take Me Home,” the group is rushing through its gestation period on the way to the magic that may await on the other side.
The auction brought in $412.2 million, the highest total ever for a contemporary art auction at Christie’s in New York.
Jawbone and Nike are introducing new wearable, fitness-tracking bands.
A video on homeless people sleeping inside a bank, in what seems to be a growing phenomenon in Europe as a result of the economic crisis.
Ibrahimovic might seem indifferent, but that doesn’t mean he can’t make goals.
The need for reform in China is obvious and urgent.
The site has become a textbook case of successful conservation.
Rod Stewart kisses and tells and makes heaps of hits in his autobiography, “Rod.”
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