New York Times intl News

New York Times intl News


Drugs Stop AIDS. Take Your Medicine.

Posted: 21 May 2011 07:29 PM PDT

New studies have raised hopes for curbing transmission — if H.I.V. patients take treatment long before they feel sick.

Despite Careful Calculations, the World Does Not End

Posted: 21 May 2011 06:37 PM PDT

The prophecy of an apocalypse, made by a Christian radio impresario, Harold Camping of Oakland, Calif., appeared not to have come true.

North Sudan Is Said to Have Taken Contested Town on South Border

Posted: 21 May 2011 07:23 PM PDT

Southerners voted in January to become independent on July 9, but the oil-producing Abyei region has emerged as an obstacle to a peaceful split.

Half a Doctrine Will Have to Do

Posted: 21 May 2011 07:29 PM PDT

President Obama has offered a lofty, unified policy of support for popular risings in the Middle East. Can it survive in a complicated world of friends and foes?

Old Soviet Nuclear Site in Asia Has Unlikely Sentinel: The U.S.

Posted: 21 May 2011 06:39 PM PDT

Western scientists are aiming to keep terrorists away from debris the Soviets left behind during their atomic tests, with the fear that the materials could be used for nuclear devices.

Scattered at the Start, Shackleford Finishes the Right Way

Posted: 21 May 2011 06:37 PM PDT

Ridden by Jesus Castanon, Shackleford edged Animal Kingdom, the winner of the Kentucky Derby.

Iceland’s Grimsvotn Volcano Erupts

Posted: 21 May 2011 06:36 PM PDT

Iceland's most active volcano has started erupting, scientists said, just over a year after another eruption on the North Atlantic island shut down European air traffic for days.

A Sexist Pig Myth

Posted: 21 May 2011 07:01 PM PDT

The scandals of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Arnold Schwarzenegger raise the question: Does power turn regular guys into sexual predators?

The Rail: Shackleford Takes 136th Preakness Stakes

Posted: 21 May 2011 04:07 PM PDT

Ridden by Jesus Castanon, Shackleford edged past Animal Kingdom, the winner of the Kentucky Derby, to take the 136th running of the Preakness Stakes.

With Withdrawal Looming, Trails Grow Cold for Americans Missing in Iraq

Posted: 21 May 2011 06:46 PM PDT

The fates of eight American men are a haunting piece of unfinished business that the military will leave behind when it withdraws by the end of the year.

Online Sex Videos Force Resignations of Six Members of Turkish Opposition Party

Posted: 21 May 2011 04:30 PM PDT

The sexually explicit videos were posted on a Web site that has cast itself as part of a breakaway ultranationalist group.

Lord Onslow, a Peer by Birth and Contrarian by Nature, Dies at 73

Posted: 21 May 2011 06:26 PM PDT

Michael William Coplestone Dillon Onslow, who held other titles, including viscount, baron and baronet, died in England on May 14.

Russia Seeks Pledge From NATO on Missile Defense

Posted: 21 May 2011 01:17 PM PDT

Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov said Russia did not want any missile defense system used by the alliance in Europe to be aimed at the country.

For Trainers, the Preakness ‘Legitimizes’ a Horse

Posted: 21 May 2011 01:50 PM PDT

Horsemen say that more often than not, the winner of the Preakness is the best horse of its generation.

Syrians Are Fatally Shot At Funeral for Protesters

Posted: 21 May 2011 07:11 PM PDT

Security forces shot and killed at least five people and wounded several others in a funeral procession for eight protesters who died Friday.

24 at Malaysian Orphanage Are Buried in Landslides

Posted: 21 May 2011 12:10 PM PDT

Heavy rain, which apparently caused the disaster, continued to fall, hampering rescue and recovery.

In the Golan Heights, Anxious Eyes Look East

Posted: 21 May 2011 06:35 PM PDT

For the roughly 20,000 Arabs of the Druze religious sect who live in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, this is Syrian territory.

Lionel Messi: Boy Genius

Posted: 21 May 2011 07:29 PM PDT

Messi is an agile, darting virtuoso tethered to a soccer ball with an almost preternatural sense of the field.

Promise of Arab Uprisings Is Threatened by Divisions

Posted: 21 May 2011 07:13 PM PDT

From Egypt to Syria, tensions over religion and clans have threatened uprisings that once seemed to promise a new sense of national identity built on the idea of citizenship.

Texas Blogger’s ‘Man Crush’ on Putin Leads to Lengthy Heart to Heart

Posted: 21 May 2011 06:40 PM PDT

A high school English teacher who blogs for an outdoor sports magazine scored a coup when he caught some big journalistic game for an interview — Vladimir V. Putin.