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Nov. 8, 2022Climate change does not lend itself to easy documentation.Like nature itself, it can move slowly. Change can come in increments, and it is not always clear what to make of...

Making the World Heritage List from UNESCO, the United Nations’ educational, scientific and cultural organization, is a kind of gold seal of approval in the tourism world. The list, which began in...

After weeks of unexpected battlefield setbacks for Russia, the war in Ukraine on Sunday delivered another surprise: the emergence of a former Russian convict and onetime hot-dog seller as perhaps the Kremlin’s...

COP27 beginsThe 27th annual U.N. climate talks, known as COP27, began yesterday. At the top of the agenda for developing countries is financing for loss and damage: Who will pay for the...

KEELUNG, Taiwan — Visitors to Keelung, a mountainous port city on Taiwan’s northern coast, might reasonably think that the white wall at the back of Shi Hui-hua’s breakfast shop is, well, a...

At the International Military-Technical Forum in Moscow in August. Russia is the world’s second largest arms exporter after the United States.Credit...Nanna Heitmann for The New York TimesArms sales have long been an...

For their part, South Korea and the United States demonstrated their own combined air power superiority this past week, with warplanes conducting ​a record 1,600 sorties during the Vigilant Storm exercise.On Saturday,...

Is beauty really in the eye of the beholder? This is a question Canadian medical student Dominic Thibault asked himself when embarking on a journey to define human beauty in a completely...

WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner arrives to a hearing at the Khimki Court, outside Moscow in August.Credit...Kirill Kudryavtsev/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesU.S. officials met with the jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner...

Even by the standards of New Zealand, which in the 1990s marketed itself as at “the edge of the world,” Haast is remote. The local school has just eight students. The nearest...