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In the 12 days since war broke out in Sudan, the residents in the capital of Khartoum have learned to survive, living side by side with armed fighters. Civilians negotiate with a feared...

Don Lemon is out on CNN. In an announcement that Lemon said left him “stunned,” CNN on Monday declared an end to its longtime relationship with Lemon, a star anchor who was a fixture of the...

On March 20, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network released its annual World Happiness Report, which rates well-being in countries around the world. For the sixth year in a row,...

Over the past year, the injectable diabetes medication Ozempic steamrolled through TikTok, talk shows, and tabloids as people raved about using it off-label to lose weight. Then the hype intensified...

To buy or to wait? Given the wild fluctuations of airfare prices, that is a frugal flyer’s persistent dilemma. A fare found today may tick up tomorrow, double next week or fall. Now Google and...

Despite the cancellation years ago of China’s harsh, Mao-era restriction on families to a single child, and even after more recent incentives urging families to have more children, China’s...

KARACHI, Pakistan — The crowds begin to form at dawn. They swell through the day as hundreds of men and women swathed in bright purple and pink scarves wait outside the charity’s gates in Karachi,...

Fighting in the Sudanese capital raged into the early hours of Sunday after a day of deadly battles between paramilitaries and the regular army that left at least 56 people dead and nearly 600...

Jade Akintola and Brandon Thomas Brown are balancing three competing financial priorities — preparing for the birth of their first child, saving up for a down payment on their first home and...

LONDON — Harry Potter fans, some of whom have been casting spells for years in hopes of a television series about the boy wizard, can finally put their wands down and rejoice. Max, the new...

Jupiter, king of the solar system, will be getting new visitors. The largest planet orbiting the sun is interesting itself, but its massive moons are the ultimate prize — some of them hunks of icy...

More than a decade ago, lawyers were singled out as an endangered occupational species, their livelihoods at risk from advances in artificial intelligence. But the doomsayers got ahead of...

Studying the seasons on the planet Uranus takes a while. One year on the distant, bluish gas giant — the time it takes Uranus to go once around the sun — is 84 Earth years. Photographs from the...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan government this week barred female Afghan employees at the United Nations from working in Afghanistan, according to U.N. officials, a move threatening one of the last...

Countless travelers have experienced the distinct anxiety-inducing sensation of turbulence on flights: eyes squeezed shut, hands clamped to the armrests for dear life, bracing for the roller coaster...

Johnson & Johnson said on Tuesday that it had agreed to pay $8.9 billion to tens of thousands of people who claimed the company’s talcum powder products caused cancer, a proposal that lawyers for...

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter users anticipated a reckoning over the weekend as the verification check marks that denoted the accounts of celebrities, politicians, and other notable figures and...

VENICE, Italy — In the middle of the night, as the tide rose, winds whipped and waves grew, an engineer in a command center on an artificial island on the rim of the Venice, Italy, lagoon clicked an...

ACCRA, Ghana — Vice President Kamala Harris has begun a weeklong tour of Ghana and two other African nations as the Biden administration hopes to set a new path for U.S.-Africa ties that focuses on...

The 30 women sat in wooden chairs, facing each other in a rectangular formation. At the front of the room was the ruling Communist Party’s hammer and sickle logo, with a sign declaring the...