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TOKYO — In many ways, Yogendra Puranik is an immigrant success story. Puranik, 45, joined the initial wave of Indian tech workers who went to Japan in the early 2000s. He became a Japanese...

A 1,300-year-old gold-and-gemstone necklace that was recently discovered in an ancient gravesite in England may have belonged to a woman who was an early Christian leader, according to experts...

For nearly 100 years, drivers have been listening to AM radio, an American institution crackling with news, traffic, weather, sports, and an eclectic variety of other programs. But that dashboard...

It began with truffles. White ones, from Alba, shaved over a butter-daubed wedge of dough, then ditto with a heady black variety from Irpinia. Seated in the courtyard of the famed Naples pizzeria...

The Tuesday before every Thanksgiving, Aaron Karo and Matt Ritter, both 43, go out to dinner with seven men whom they befriended as second graders in Plainview, New York. At the dinner, one of the...

LONDON — Oil officials from OPEC and Russia will meet on Sunday to consider production levels, just hours before the European Union begins an embargo of Russian oil and as the Group of 7...

The fire began with a faulty power strip in a bedroom on the 15th floor of an apartment building in China’s far west. Firefighters spent three hours putting it out — too slow to prevent at least...

Shimea Hooks was so focused on her carry-on full of pumped breast milk that at first she didn’t understand what the agent from the Transportation Security Administration was saying. Hooks, 32,...

We were stepping carefully through a dripping wet forest at the edge of the beach, at night. Above us, 150-foot-tall trees towered, their canopy blotting out the stars. I could hear bats chittering...

Q: Is it better to brush my teeth before or after breakfast? Some dentists say it’s better to brush before, some say after — which one is it? A: Everyone knows that you should brush your teeth...

A good night’s sleep can make us more empathetic, more creative, better parents, and better partners, according to Aric Prather, a psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who...

The Transportation Department said Monday that it had fined a half-dozen airlines a total of more than $7 million for failing to provide timely refunds to customers. The department’s intervention...

ISTANBUL — A bomb attack struck a bustling pedestrian thoroughfare in central Istanbul on Sunday, killing at least eight people in what officials said could be a terrorist attack and shattering a...

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — For 30 years, developing countries have been calling for industrialized ones to provide compensation for the costs of devastating storms and droughts caused by climate...

Republicans on Tuesday gained ground in their push to take control of the House, although Democrats appeared to be holding their own against hard-right GOP candidates in crucial districts as they...

A year ago, at the UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, heads of state and business leaders made a long list of splashy promises to help fight global warming. But as the 2022 climate...

Weeks after expressing optimism about the global economy and its business, Apple on Sunday warned that its sales would fall short of expectations because a key iPhone factory in China had been...

Twitter announced Saturday that it would begin charging customers $7.99 a month to receive a verification check mark on their profiles, one of a raft of product changes that the company has...

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter is facing an exodus of executives and skittish advertisers as Elon Musk and his advisers take control of the social media company, prepare to lay off employees and make...

With nearly 1 million job vacancies across the country, Canada is turning more squarely toward foreigners to address its labor shortage and has set record-breaking immigration targets for the coming...