New York Times intl News

New York Times intl News

Service Members Are Killed in Afghan Attacks

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 05:03 PM PDT

In what are being investigated as possible insider attacks, two British services members died in a gun battle and two United States Forces-Afghanistan members were killed.

Israeli Officials Asked to Be Silent on Issue of U.S.-Iran Talks

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 06:33 PM PDT

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides were trying to head off political problems over a report on the possibility of bilateral talks between the United States and Iran.

Berlusconi’s Retreat Upends Political Field

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:02 PM PDT

Silvio Berlusconi's decision not to lead his party in Italy's spring elections has radically reshuffled the political deck and opened a race for the center.

As Transition Nears, China Names New Military Leaders

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:29 PM PDT

China announced the promotions of five generals this week, shaping the top leadership of the rapidly modernizing military ahead of the 18th Party Congress.

Savile Sexual Abuse Case Expands to Other Suspects

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:03 PM PDT

The scandal at the BBC expanded from its focus on Jimmy Savile to questions about other parts of the institution and to suggestions of abuse at hospitals, news reports said.

Sandy Hits Bahamas After Havoc in Cuba and Haiti

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 05:01 PM PDT

The hurricane was expected to reach Florida by Friday morning and mix with a winter storm whose effects will be felt along the East Coast as far as Maine.

Greek Unemployed Cut Off From Medical Treatment

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 04:47 PM PDT

"If Greece wants to help its citizens it should leave the Euro, devalue its new currency and print its own money to pay the doctors and hospitals," writes Guntram in Frankfurt.

Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 04:47 PM PDT

"The acquisitive voracity of the powerful knows no ideological limits," writes Ben.

High & Low Finance: Euro Avoids Collapse, but Its Future Remains Uncertain

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:07 PM PDT

The real issue facing the euro is whether the peripheral countries can become successful economies while staying in the currency zone.

Fatal Stabbings on Upper West Side; Nanny Is Arrested

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:28 PM PDT

A mother returned from work to her Upper West Side apartment to find two of her children fatally stabbed in a bathtub by the family's nanny, the authorities said.

Critical Shopper: Posed to Turn Up the Volume

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 12:48 PM PDT

Two erotically posed yarn statues are deployed amid the knitwear at Benetton's pop-up store in Manhattan.

A Popular Twist on Putting Hair in Its Place

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 12:58 PM PDT

A popular hair accessory that works like a corkscrew to secure messy-on-purpose buns and topknots has its share of imitators.

Amazon Reports Loss Despite Higher Sales

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 06:38 PM PDT

Amazon lost 60 cents a share in the third quarter, much of it because of a large loss on its investment in the daily deals site Living Social.

Family of Wen Jiabao Holds a Hidden Fortune in China

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:21 PM PDT

It is unclear how much Wen Jiabao, the prime minister of China, who has staked a position as a populist and a reformer, knows about the $2.7 billion in assets that his family has amassed.

The Caucus: Echoing ’08 Obama Slogan, Romney Promises ‘Change’

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 12:44 PM PDT

Mitt Romney started a bus tour across Ohio by casting himself and his running mate as reformers prepared to correct America's course.

World Series Gives Venezuela Much to Root For

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 12:26 PM PDT

Venezuelans cannot simply cheer for their own with five countrymen playing for the Giants and four for the Tigers in this World Series.

Global Soccer: The Builders, Rather Than the Spenders, Rule This Night

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 09:08 AM PDT

When Ajax toppled Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund beat Real Madrid in their Champions League matches, it was a victory for clubs that live frugally and groom their own talent.

The Agenda: Nearly Absent in the Campaign: Climate Change

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:13 PM PDT

Even after a year of high temperatures and drought, President Obama and Mitt Romney have seemed intent on trying to outdo each other as lovers of coal, oil and natural gas.

Fish Off Fukushima, Japan, Show Elevated Levels of Cesium

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:06 PM PDT

New research to be published in the journal Science suggests that radioactive particles from last year's nuclear disaster have accumulated on the sea floor and could contaminate sea life for decades.

Ford to Close Plants in Britain and Belgium to Stem Losses

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 12:20 PM PDT

Ford broke from the pack of troubled European automakers, announcing deep cuts that include shutting factories in Britain and Belgium and eliminating 5,700 jobs.