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My husband and I have had a recurring fight since the Clinton administration. He has a habit of shedding his socks and leaving them, near — but not in — the hamper. I ask why he can’t seem to...

Microsoft will start limiting conversations with the new chatbot in its Bing search engine to five questions per session and 50 questions per day, the company said on Friday. Microsoft released a...

For miles around the small Turkish city of Erzin, the earth is shattered and buildings are razed, towns and cities turned into tombs of concrete by last week’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake. But Erzin...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Scattered across a neighborhood in central Kabul are the ruins of another empire that come and gone from Afghanistan. Tattered sandbags and piles of discarded barbed wire....

ISLAHIYE, Turkey — A week after a devastating earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, with families crowded under tarps and cardboard shelters, a severe shortage of tents, housing and medical supplies...

Collapsed apartment buildings, rubble strewed across streets, families sheltered in tents in a soccer stadium: Initial imagery shows widespread destruction in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, a city of about...

ADIYAMAN, Turkey — Turkish officials on Saturday began detaining dozens of contractors they blamed for some of the building collapses in Monday’s devastating earthquake, as anger swelled over the...

MUMBAI, India — When shares of the Adani Group, until recently India’s largest conglomerate, began their free fall late last month, shedding more than $100 billion in days, some observers worried...

ANTAKYA, Turkey — They bedded down anywhere they could: on lightless street corners, in grassy little parks, next to an elementary school, on a hillside down from one of the world’s earliest...

ANTAKYA, Turkey — As dawn broke on Tuesday, rescuers scrambled to use whatever they could — shovels, bare hands, random tools found on the street — to dig for survivors after the worst...

LONDON — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tried to recharge Britain’s beleaguered government on Tuesday, shuffling Cabinet ministers and creating new departments to focus on science, technology, and...

More than three years after Elon Musk stunned the auto industry with an electric pickup truck that looked more like a stealth fighter than a way to haul two-by-fours and drywall, Tesla said last month...

CAIRO — Once again, Syrians heard the roar and thud of buildings coming down, and once again saw dust rising from the mounds of gray, jagged concrete and twisted metal where houses and offices had...

An earthquake that struck a densely-populated part of southeastern Turkey and that was felt as far away as Israel and Cyprus was strong and shallow enough to be lethal on a devastating scale,...

JUBA, South Sudan — It is just over a decade since the steamy capital of South Sudan exploded in joy, with revelers singing and dancing through the night to mark the birth of their nation as it...

LONDON — Struggling to dispel an ethical cloud that has hung over his government, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Sunday fired the chair of Britain’s Conservative Party, Nadhim Zahawi, over his...

The conglomerate controlled by Gautam Adani, a politically connected Indian industrialist, lost about $50 billion in value this week after it was upended by a small investment firm in New York. ...

Mohe, China’s northernmost city, recorded a temperature of minus 63.4 degrees Fahrenheit this week. That was the coldest in its recorded history and cold enough to cause hypothermia within minutes...

A child is asleep on a couch floating in the water. Two thousand passengers trapped in a flooded airport. Hundreds of people evacuated from their homes. The morning after the worst downpour since...

For a stretch of the pandemic, tech companies couldn’t hire fast enough. Talent wars broke out in Silicon Valley, with firms vying for software engineers, often lavishing extravagant perks on their...