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- German Election Results Herald Messier Politics and Weaker Leadership After Merkel
- German elections usher in political change with a small 'c'
- COP26: Australia PM undecided on attending crucial climate summit
- Your Monday Briefing
- Swipe left or right? Germany's election dating game, explained
- Power outages hit homes in north-east China
- In-person turnout is lower than in 2017, but mail-in ballots may boost overall numbers.
- German officials expect record mail-in ballots.
- Man killed as Crete struck by 5.8-magnitude earthquake
- Hakuho: Sumo wrestling's greatest champion retires
- Red Covid
- Carles Puigdemont, Catalan Separatist, Dodges Spain's Bid to Prosecute Him
- Intimate Portraits of Mexico’s Third-Gender Muxes
- 'Every Day Is Frightening': Working For Walmart Amid Covid
- Australia's Costs for Its Harder Line on China
- Pledging to modernize industry and ‘halt man-made climate change,’ Olaf Scholz claims mandate.
- Social Democrats win German election by slimmest of margins.
- German election: Seven things we learned
- Instagram for kids paused after backlash
- South Korea's president mulls dog meat ban as consumption wanes
- Afghanistan: Social media users delete profiles over fear of attack
- Beirut port explosion investigation suspended for second time
- Fire, smoke and colour as Ethiopians mark Meskel
- Papers gripped by Germany's era of uncertainty
- German election: Green Party speaks of 'fantastic campaign'
- Live Updates: The German Election Is Over. Now Comes the Hard Part.
- China's Abortion Vow Sparks Worries About Limits
- As Tunisia’s President Cements One-Man Rule, Opposition Grows
- How China Plans to Avert an Evergrande Financial Crisis
- Sydney Charts a Path Out of Lockdown
- N.Y.'s Covid Vaccine Mandate Tested by Pushback From Workers
- Australia: Footage captures car careering across eight lanes
- R. Kelly found guilty in sex trafficking trial
- Germany election: Coalition talks begin after close election
- Gas Shortages and Long Lines Upend Britons’ Daily Lives
- China Power Outages Close Factories and Threaten Growth
- Covid-19: President Joe Biden receives Pfizer booster jab
- Why Haitians in Chile Keep Heading North to the U.S.
- Social Democrats Win German Election by Slimmest of Margins
- Mapping Losses for Angela Merkel's Party in German Vote
- New Taliban Chancellor Bars Women From Kabul University
- Your Tuesday Briefing
- Two Transgender Women Win Seats in the Next German Parliament
- Winner but Not Chancellor — Yet. The Race to Replace Merkel
- John Lennon: Recording of unreleased song up for auction in Denmark
- What it's like to be a nine-year-old in a vaccine clinical trial
- Remembering Babyn Yar and Ukraine's forgotten 'Holocaust by Bullets'
- Three Polish regions scrap anti-LGBT resolutions
- North Korea fires missile, says South's military
- Taliban: Afghanistan bank boss warns sector near collapse
- Canada Doubles Its Afghan Refugee Resettlement Target to 40,000 People
- Bolsonaro's Wife Was Vaccinated During Their Visit to New York
- North Korea Launches Short-Range Missile as Country’s Envoy Speaks at U.N.
- Goldman Sachs cuts China growth forecast over power outages
- Female Afghan judges hunted by the murderers they convicted
- Your Tuesday Briefing
- China lets US siblings return home after three years
- Climate change: Why India can't live without coal
- Trapped Canadian miners in 10-hour escape climb
- Mark Rutte: Dutch PM's security stepped up over gang threat
- The U.S. Military Said It Was an ISIS Safe House. We Found an Afghan Family Home.
- Canada Increases Afghan Refugee Resettlement Target to 40,000 People
- A Shaman Said Holy Water Cured Covid. He Died After Getting the Disease.
- Dasani’s Story
- Author of 'My Monticello' on Writing a Debut Book With Buzz
- Afghanistan: US General Mark Milley faces questions
- WHO horrified over sexual exploitation by aid workers in DR Congo
- Germany election: Merkel heir loses support as parties meet
- Blast tears through Gothenburg apartment block, injuring 16
- Haiti polls postponed after electoral body is dissolved
- Australian researchers uncover fossil of new eagle species
- Why Gas Pumps Across Britain Are Running Dry
- Man Charged With Murder in Killing of Sabina Nessa in London
- Bringing a Deathly Michelangelo Sculpture Back to Life
- Scotland’s Oil Industry Is Fading as Wind Energy Beckons
- A Shaman Said Holy Water Cured Covid. He Died After Getting the Disease.
- Simone Biles says she 'should have quit way before' Tokyo Olympic Games
- Patrick Zaki: Egypt tries Christian rights activist on false news charge
- How Hong Kong Censors Films to Protect National Security
- Greta Thunberg mocks world leaders' words at Youth4Climate
- Capitol Gazette shooting: 'You cannot kill the truth'
- ‘I Can’t Imagine a Good Future’: Young Iranians Increasingly Want Out
- Italy: Statue of scantily-clad woman sparks sexism row
- German Election Leaves Merkel’s Conservatives in Disarray
- Taro Kono, Japan's Most Popular Prime Minister Candidate, Far From a Shoo-In
- Why Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Is Likely to Stay in Power
- Your Wednesday Briefing
- A Brexit-Weary Britain Finds Itself in a New Crisis With Brexit Overtones
- Real Madrid 1-2 Sheriff Tiraspol: Champions League debutants snatch win
- North Korea says it fired new 'hypersonic missile'
- Obamas break ground on controversial Chicago presidential centre
- Peru's ex-President Alejandro Toledo cleared for extradition from US
- La Palma volcano: Toxic gas fears as lava reaches ocean
- Life at 50C: Mexico's struggle for water
- German coalition talks: Where Brits see a crisis, Germans find unity
- Aar Maanta - the pop star bringing Somalia to the Mississippi
- Calais: On patrol with the troops looking for migrants
- Hathras rape case: Prisoners in their own home, lives on hold, a village divided
- Australian rainforest returned to Aboriginal owners
- UK risks French anger over fishing permits
- Wayne Jenkins from behind bars: 'I sold drugs as a dirty cop'
- W.H.O. Workers Abused Women on Mission in Congo, Inquiry Finds
- China: Big spender or loan shark?
- Your Wednesday Briefing
- Manny Pacquiao retires from boxing to focus on political career
- Fumio Kishida wins race to become Japan's next prime minister
- United Airlines to fire staff who refuse vaccine
- Live Updates: Establishment Prevails in Pick for Japan’s Prime Minister
- Ecuador jail: Dozens killed in Guayaquil prison fight
- Unpopulism
- Who Is Fumio Kishida, the New Leader of Japan's Ruling Party?
- La Palma volcano: Family's anguish as lava destroys 'miracle house'
- Scorching La Palma lava fizzes as it hits ocean
- Tunisian President Appoints Prime Minister Amid Protests Over Power Grab
- Canada Grants Asylum to Refugees Who Sheltered Snowden in Hong Kong
- Do Germany’s Election Results Signal a Left Turn for Europe?
- Amazon's algorithms taken to task in landmark bill
- North Korea’s Nuclear Arsenal Has Grown. Here’s What’s in It.
- Sarah Everard Case: Killer Falsely Arrested Her
- Women in Latin America march for abortion rights
- Russia detains cyber-security tycoon Ilya Sachkov in treason case
- Anger as France slashes visas for Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia
- US declares 23 bird, fish and other species extinct
- Russia threatens YouTube ban for deleting RT channels
- Beirut port blast: Victims' families protest at probe's suspension
- Vitamin A treatment trial for Covid loss of smell
- Sheriff Tiraspol: Champions League team from an unrecognised state
- Japan Faces Big Problems. Its Next Leader Offers Few Bold Solutions.
- Reduced to Rubble, an Afghan Village Struggles to Rebuild
- Amid Tensions With U.S., Erdogan Praises Ties with Russia
- U.K. Gas Shortages Reveal New Crucial Workers: Truck Drivers
- Retailers’ Latest Headache: Shutdowns at Their Vietnamese Suppliers
- In Week of Words, It Often Seemed Like the Divided Nations
- Keir Starmer Seeks to Push Labour to Political Center
- In Paris, It’s Literary Scandal Season Again
- French Court Convicts Magazine Over Racist Portrayal of Black Lawmaker
- La Palma Volcano Lava Hits Ocean, Creating a Pyramid and Toxic Gas Risks
- Daintree Forest in Australia Is Returned to Indigenous Owners
- Afghanistan: US-Taliban deal hastened Afghan collapse, defence officials say
- Can the US avoid another government shutdown?
- Britney Spears' father suspended as conservator
- YouTube to remove all anti-vaccine misinformation
- Italy climate minister accepts Thunberg's 'blah, blah, blah' criticism
- Katty Kay: Former BBC journalist quits US media firm
- Australian Covid data: Shock as teenagers reveal they're behind hit tracking site
- Health Officials are Buying Millions of Vaccines for Latin America
- Who Is Fumio Kishida, Japan's Likely Next Prime Minister?
- Talk of Iraq Recognizing Israel Prompts Threats of Arrest or Death
- Your Thursday Briefing
- The world’s top central bankers see supply chain problems prolonging inflation.
- Who Is the New Leader of Japan's Ruling Party?
- Canada indigenous children's compensation order upheld
- Maria Kolesnikova: No regrets for Belarus activist jailed for coup plot
- The Kansas case that could change how rape is charged
- Changing China: How Beijing's crackdowns are impacting business
- Zaid Ait Malek: The stowaway who became a Spanish ultra running star
- Prison Riot in Ecuador Leaves More Than 100 Inmates Dead
- Hospitals in England relax Covid rules to try to ease a patient backlog.
- In lockdown for 18 months, Singapore’s migrant workers yearn for freedom.
- Spain will allow soccer stadiums to return to 100 percent capacity.
- Lockdowns at Vietnamese suppliers create a crunch for retailers.
- Britney Spears: Fans cry and cheer after her father is suspended as conservator
- Your Thursday Briefing
- James Bond and MI6: Is there fact in fiction?
- Climate change: Ministers meet in Milan for pre-COP26
- North Korea's Kim Jong-un offers to restore inter-Korean hotline
- Waterspout hits German port city of Kiel, throwing people from boats
- British firm claims quantum-computing breakthrough
- Britney Spears: Singer 'on cloud nine' after conservatorship ruling
- Nazi Stutthof camp secretary flees as German trial starts
- Sarkozy: Ex-French president gets jail sentence over campaign funding
- Shakira: Singer attacked by a pair of wild boars
- Danish museum wants artist to pay back money after producing blank canvasses
- Ex-President Sarkozy Sentenced to Jail for Campaign Spending Violations
- After Knife Attack, New Zealand Criminalizes Terror Plotting
- The Right to Health
- Ecuador prison 'gang war' leaves more than 100 dead
- Covid Live Updates: Los Angeles Weighs Stricter Restrictions on the Unvaccinated
- Sarah Everard’s Killer, Wayne Couzens, Sentenced to Life in Prison
- Climate change: Youth have 'every right to be angry' says UK PM
- Facebook grilled over mental-health impact on kids
- Ethiopia expels top UN officials amid Tigray aid crisis
- Rio 2016: Shadow of cheating marred boxing bouts
- 'Google' is most searched word on Bing, Google says
- Lithuania vs. China: A Baltic Minnow Defies a Rising Superpower
- How Asia, Once a Vaccination Laggard, Is Revving Up Inoculations
- ‘Shrinking the Conflict’: What Does Israel’s New Mantra Really Mean?
- German Police Arrest 96-Year-Old Nazi Suspect Who Tried to Skip Court
- As Dutch Prime Minister Gets Extra Security, Fears Focus on Drug Gangs
- Most African Nations Fall Short of W.H.O. Target for Covid Vaccination
- Shutdown: Congress votes to keep US government open
- French confession may end 35-year hunt for serial killer
- Gloria Estefan says she was sexually abused aged nine
- Ethiopia Plans to Expel U.N. Officials Leading Aid Response in Tigray
- Your Friday Briefing
- E.U. Countries Risk a New Surge if They Ease Restrictions Now, Officials Warn
- As Need in Afghanistan Grows Dire, Aid Groups Plead for Help
- Here’s a rundown of the legal challenges to New York’s vaccine mandate.
- Ecuador jail riot: Anxiety, fear and little information
- The impact of the strictest anti-abortion law in the US
- North Korea says it test-fired new anti-aircraft missile
- Dubai opens coronavirus-delayed Expo 2020
- Turkey: 'Missing' man joins search party looking for himself
- Squid Game: The Netflix show adding murder to playground nostalgia
- The biggest test of Biden's presidency so far
- Spanish women filmed urinating left humiliated by judge
- Covid-19 vaccinations: More than 50 nations have missed a target set by the WHO
- The writer behind musicals about Princess Diana and Tom Jones (twice)
- Rome mayor election: Can Rome be rescued from the rubbish?
- Straight-talking rappers tackle Middle East conflict
- Randall Goosby: Violinist champions music by black composers
- North Korea Continues a Barrage of Missile Tests
- Australian border to reopen for first time in pandemic
- Biden suffers blow as trillion-dollar vote delayed
- Aukus: Australia-EU trade talks delayed as row deepens
- Princess Mako: Japanese royal to finally marry commoner boyfriend
- A Japanese Princess Is Set to Be Wed. But It’s No Fairy Tale.
- 'Fake News' Bill in South Korea Gets Shelved Amid Outcry
- Your Friday Briefing
- North Korea Missile Tests Are Part of a Familiar Strategy
- In Portugal, There Is Virtually No One Left to Vaccinate
- Democrats, Divided
- Australia Accelerates Plans to Lift Pandemic Travel Bans
- The World Wants Greenland’s Minerals, but Greenlanders Are Wary
- Why Diversity Seems Easier Said Than Done in Politics
- Covid antiviral pill can halve risk of hospitalisation
- Peter Nygard: Fashion mogul to be extradited to US
- Covid: India imposes 10-day quarantine on UK nationals
- Papua New Guinea: Apec Maserati fleet to sell at discount
- Lavish Russian wedding for Tsar's descendant
- Georgian ex-president Saakashvili arrested returning from exile
- Mamady Doumbouya: Guinea coup leader sworn in as president
- London Police, Under Fire on Everard Murder, Respond With Safety Tips
- Peter Nygard Set to Be Extradited to the U.S.
- Jenns Hanning Delivered Two Blank Canvases to a Danish Museum
- Europe’s Social Democrats Show Signs of Life, but France Poses a Roadblock
- War and Strife Have Come to Prosecco Country
- A Year in the Life: Who Gets a Master’s Degree in the Beatles?
- India Retaliates Against Britain by Requiring U.K. Visitors to Quarantine
- The Marvelous Physics of Swarming Midges
- He Sees Migrants as ‘Modern Slaves,’ and Has Devoted His Life to Helping Them
- Fire Kills 7 in Romanian Hospital's Covid Ward
- Paris attacks: Haunting survivors' memories shake terror trial
- Covid threat looms over Thailand's plans to open up to tourists
- Mali's plan for Russia mercenaries to replace French troops unsettles Sahel
- Brazil: A drought with roots in the Amazon jungle
- Can social media help solve the Gabby Petito case?
- Ros Atkins On… Global supply chain disruption
- After 100 Years, a Royal Wedding in Russia Evokes Days of the Czars
- Georgia Arrests Former Leader Mikheil Saakashvili
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