Aid workers delivered the first shipments of help to Myanmar, but will have to cross a country buckled by the disaster and divided by civil war, arms dealers and drug syndicates.

A scarcity of rice is causing discontent among farmers and consumers in Japan and drawing attention to a policy some say has worsened shortages.

Taken from a First Nation community in Canada, the shrine recently began a more than 3,000-mile journey back from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

A veteran who returned from Iraq injured and transformed, Joy Marver is now facing a crisis at home.

It was almost as though America’s northern neighbor were an entirely different country.

Leaders at top-flight law firms, Columbia University and inside City Hall are weighing decisions that pit the fates of their institutions against their own reputations.

A.I. “deadbots” and avatars are ushering in a new era of techno-spiritualism.

For 25 years, France has said schools must teach sex ed. Now the government is at last putting a curriculum in place.

In public, President Trump has defended his national security adviser. But behind the scenes, he has cast around for advice.

On Saturday the U.S. figure skating star became the men’s world champion for the second straight year. To get there, he had to channel his grief over losing fellow skaters in January’s D.C. plane crash.

The collapse of a 30-story building under construction was “not normal,” an engineering expert said. It was one of the biggest projects ever done by a Chinese state-owned company.

When Max Frankel ascended to The Times’s top spot in 1986, he set out to respect traditions as the paper entered a period of vast transformation.

Nearly all of the institute’s U.S.-based staff members were fired and asked to sign a separation agreement, according to notices reviewed by The Times.

No crumbs were left behind at Cake Picnic in San Francisco on Saturday as attendees gawked, photographed and ultimately ate 1,387 cakes.

The victims were walking Saturday on the border of the Gravesend and Midwood neighborhoods when two cars collided and one veered into their path, the police said.

The choice of cabinet officials was seen as a litmus test for whether the rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad would deliver on a pledge to create a government representative of all Syrians.

One of Greenland’s national pastimes was nearly hijacked this week after the White House said the Second Lady would attend. She didn’t. But a lot of people talked about this as the mushers did their work.

The new law is among the most restrictive governing displays of flags, and is part of a polarizing debate focused on the Pride flag and other expressions of L.G.B.T.Q. support.

The former television journalist and co-chair of the university’s board of trustees takes the helm at a time of significant peril for the institution.

Mr. Mathis, 89, a pioneer of romantic ballads, is leaving the stage because of his age and memory problems, his website said.