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CAIRO — Ancient tombs have been shattered. Gardens have vanished, and with them many of Cairo’s trees. A growing number of historic but shabby working-class neighborhoods have all but...

The Thar Desert today is a scorching region in western India’s Rajasthan state. But in the Mesozoic Era, it was a tropical shoreline along the Tethys Ocean, inhabited by dinosaurs and marine...

In a dramatic rescue, Pakistani security forces on Tuesday said they had plucked eight people including several schoolchildren from a stranded cable car left hanging hundreds of feet above a mountain...

Exercise scientists long ago debunked the notion that you need to hit 10,000 steps each day to stay healthy and live longer. Even a little movement is good, they argue, though more is better. Now, a...

Concern is rising about the COVID-19 variant EG.5. This month, it became the dominant variant in the United States, and the World Health Organization classified EG.5 as a “variant of interest,”...

SYDNEY — To win a World Cup, everything usually has to be perfect. The manager and the players have to exist in harmony. The squad has to be in a delicate balance: between talent and tenacity, youth...

SEOUL, South Korea — A model Chinese property developer in a sector replete with risk-takers is teetering on the edge of default. Short of cash, one of China’s biggest asset managers has missed...

LONDON — A British nurse was found guilty Friday in the deaths of seven newborns and the attempted murders of six others, according to the police department responsible for the investigation, ending...

Getting older doesn’t have to mean moving less. The key to long-standing fitness, experts say, is envisioning the kind of athlete you want to be 20, 30, even 40 years from now, and training smartly...

The announcement of a prisoner exchange deal between the United States and Iran could increase the prospects for further diplomatic cooperation, including the Biden administration’s long-standing...

The days of unrestricted privileges for leisure travel across much of Europe are numbered. Currently, travelers from dozens of countries, including the United States, can enter with just their...

BIBIPUR, India — When the nurse stepped out of the delivery room, her face turned somber as she approached with a baby in her arms wrapped in a blanket. Her voice dropped to a hush, almost like she...

Brutal heat waves have baked the world this summer and they haven’t been contained to land. Earth’s oceans are the hottest they have been in modern history, by an unusually wide margin. The...

The arrival of Amazon reshaped the retail landscape for books. The rise of e-books threatened the printed word. And the boom in self-publishing gave writers a path to success that left out traditional...

TORONTO — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada announced on Wednesday that he and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, had separated after 18 years of marriage. The Trudeaus, who have three...

It’s often viewed as a given: Men hunted, women gathered. After all, the anthropological reasoning went, men were naturally more aggressive, whereas the slower pace of gathering was ideal for women,...

Flight delays and cancellations are unfortunate inevitabilities, especially in summer, when more people are flying and severe weather tends to occur more frequently. How can you get your trip back...

SAN FRANCISCO — Threads, the new social app from Meta, had a fast start this month when it racked up 100 million downloads in less than a week. With so much momentum, the app seemed well on its way...

NEW DELHI — It has been business as usual lately for Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India: red carpet trips abroad, ribbon-cuttings, and political rallies at home. But he has almost entirely...

At a time when the mighty woolly mammoth roamed the Earth, some 46,000 years ago, a minuscule pair of roundworms became encased in the Siberian permafrost. Millenia later, the worms, thawed out of...