Letter From China
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW
Stoic and emotional reactions at a seminar in Beijing hinted at the fallout from the widespread practice of sending young children to live away from home.
Trilobites
By STEPH YIN
For a century, scientists have assumed that European eels synchronize their journeys to breed in the Sargasso Sea. A new study suggests otherwise.
By LIAM STACK
“It’s pretty wild how queer Ireland has become,” says her alter ego, Rory O’Neill, an activist who played a big role in legalizing same-sex marriage.
By EDWARD WONG
Most Chinese want their government to focus on domestic issues rather than helping other nations, the survey also found.
Winnipeg Journal
By DAN LEVIN
Backers of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights say it starts important conversations about injustice, but some aboriginal people say it plays down their continuing plight.
By ELLEN BARRY and MAHER SATTAR
An article in an Islamic State publication bears the byline of Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, a militant who was killed with two associates in a police raid in late August.
By WAI MOE
Among other measures, the law had authorized prison terms of up to seven years for reading foreign newspapers or listening to broadcasters like the BBC.
Letter From Europe
By KATRIN BENNHOLD
The theory holds that women are often placed in positions of power when the situation is dire, men are fleeing and the likelihood of success is low.
By EDWARD WONG
A government auditing agency will study whether American officials should broaden how they inspect foreign purchases in the U.S.
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI
Harry Sarfo, a German jailed in his home country, appears to be shooting toward a man on the ground, although the view is partially blocked.
By WILLIAM GRIMES
While under President George Bush, Mr. Reed was part of ‘the talking hat’ affair, a slip-up that entered the annals of diplomatic history.
By ALAN WONG and EDWARD WONG
Mr. Wong, 19, said after returning to Hong Kong that he had been held with little explanation from Thai officials, who he said had “mentioned a blacklist.”
By KIRK SEMPLE and NICHOLAS CASEY
After the defeat of a peace deal, the range of possibilities is dizzying, from quick talks to produce an amended agreement to an effort to rewrite the Constitution.
By MIKE IVES
The soft-spoken radio announcer both entertained and reproached American forces.
By MELISSA EDDY
Prosecutors saw no crime in a satirical poem about Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, and dropped charges against a German comedian.
By HELENE COOPER
The service member, the third American killed in hostilities in Afghanistan this year, was on a mission against Islamic State fighters in Nangarhar Province.
By THOMAS ERDBRINK
A new bill would end capital punishment for drug smugglers, who accounted for most of the country’s hundreds of executions last year, but hard-liners oppose it.
By INYOUNG KANG
The country’s location in the Caribbean and on the Gonâve microplate makes it highly vulnerable to tropical storms and earthquakes.
By RICHARD C. PADDOCK
Mr. Duterte, whose government is carrying out a deadly war on drugs, was angered by what he said was the United States’ refusal to sell weapons to the Philippines.
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
Francis vowed after the deadly tremor that he would travel to the region and pray with residents, but he had delayed the trip to avoid hindering rebuilding efforts.
Tehran Journal
By THOMAS ERDBRINK
Solving an infestation of whiteflies in Tehran came down to this: Pray for a long, cold winter to kill their eggs, or cut down all the mulberries. Officials try sticky paper instead.
By ROD NORDLAND
The secretary of state said Moscow ignored President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chlorine gas and barrel bombs against his own people.
By EDWARD WONG
People’s Daily, the Communist Party newspaper, said 589 million people were expected to travel this week — almost twice the population of the United States.
By MELISSA EDDY
On his organization’s 10th anniversary, he vowed to release “significant material” about a range of issues, including the U.S. election.
By MIKE IVES and MICHELLE INNIS
Nine men, including one said to be an aide to a cabinet minister, shed their clothes to reveal briefs that featured Malaysia’s flag.
By DENNIS OVERBYE and SEWELL CHAN
David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz were recognized for transforming the understanding of matter that assumes strange shapes.
The Interpreter
By AMANDA TAUB and MAX FISHER
Though such votes are portrayed as popular governance in its purest form, studies have found that they often subvert democracy rather than serve it.
By MUJIB MASHAL and NAJIM RAHIM
After Afghan commandos arrived to battle an insurgent assault on the critical city, residents said that heavy fighting was spreading to other areas.