4 Dead After Gunmen Attack Mali Restaurant

4 Dead After Gunmen Attack Mali Restaurant
Pakistan Honors Victims of School Massacre
Ontario’s Beer Bottleneck Is Under Siege by Brewers and Buyers
Women See Themselves as Left Out Amid Talk of Change in Catholic Church
Police Release Ottawa Gunman’s Video
Brazil Top Court Approves Graft Investigation of Politicians
American Missionary Freed in Nigeria, Church Says
T Magazine: Inside T’s Spring Men’s Style Issue
Open Source: In a Dance Remix of Netanyahu’s Speech, Two Words Echo: ‘Iran — Haman’
An Argument for Hearing a Work With a Nazi Reference
ISIS Bulldozing of Ancient Nimrud Site in Iraq Stirs Outrage
The Saturday Profile: Sex Expert’s Secret Is Out, and China’s Open to It
Families of Flight 370 Victims Fear Silence as World Moves On
Menendez Expected to Face Federal Corruption Charges
4 Nusra Front Leaders Said to Be Killed in Syria
Germany Sets Gender Quota in Boardrooms
Black Comedians in South Africa Put Power in the Punch Lines
China Blocks Web Access to ‘Under the Dome’ Documentary on Pollution
Monetary Policy: The New Jobs Report Shows Janet Yellen’s Quandary in a Nutshell
C.I.A. to Be Overhauled to Fight Modern Threats

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 08:42 PM PST

An intelligence official said two people had been arrested after gunmen attacked a restaurant in the capital of Mali and killed two Europeans and two Malian.

Pakistan Honors Victims of School Massacre

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 05:51 PM PST

Education officials in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have renamed more than a hundred schools after the children killed last year in a Taliban attack on an army-run public school in Peshawar.

Ontario’s Beer Bottleneck Is Under Siege by Brewers and Buyers

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 05:13 PM PST

Retailers, beer makers and the provincial government are increasingly skeptical of the longstanding retail system for beer sales.

Women See Themselves as Left Out Amid Talk of Change in Catholic Church

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 05:11 PM PST

Though Pope Francis has cited the importance of women in the life of the Catholic Church, critics say he has at times proved strikingly tone-deaf toward the sensitivities and needs of women.

Police Release Ottawa Gunman’s Video

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 04:55 PM PST

Michael Zehaf-Bibeau explained his motivations for attacks in which a soldier died on a video taken on his cellphone.

Brazil Top Court Approves Graft Investigation of Politicians

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 04:35 PM PST

The Supreme Court late Friday approved an investigation of dozens of top politicians, including a former president and leaders of congress, for alleged connections to what prosecutors call the biggest graft scheme ever uncovered in Brazil.

American Missionary Freed in Nigeria, Church Says

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 03:36 PM PST

The Rev. Phyllis Sortor, who was kidnapped in central Nigeria in February, has been safely released to the authorities, her Free Methodist Church said in a statement on Friday.

T Magazine: Inside T’s Spring Men’s Style Issue

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 03:15 PM PST

From our cover subject, the legendary Jean-Michel Basquiat, to the legend-in-the-making Shayne Oliver of Hood by Air, our latest issue celebrates men who embrace contradiction.

Open Source: In a Dance Remix of Netanyahu’s Speech, Two Words Echo: ‘Iran — Haman’

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 03:06 PM PST

Discussion of the story of Queen Esther, which the prime minister invoked before Congress, has had omitted passages and conflicting messages.

An Argument for Hearing a Work With a Nazi Reference

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 03:05 PM PST

The issue of musical quotation is nothing new, and the "Horst Wessel" song has been used before as commentary in music.

ISIS Bulldozing of Ancient Nimrud Site in Iraq Stirs Outrage

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 03:00 PM PST

Archaeologists despaired that the Islamic State aimed to systematically destroy the relics at a wellspring of civilization.

The Saturday Profile: Sex Expert’s Secret Is Out, and China’s Open to It

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 02:29 PM PST

After a blogger accused her of being a closeted lesbian, Li Yinhe, an advocate of freewheeling sexuality in China, announced that her partner of 17 years is a transgender man.

Families of Flight 370 Victims Fear Silence as World Moves On

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 01:41 PM PST

Relatives of those who were on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have spent the past year in a limbo of grief, anger and hope. But to them, the fact that the world may have moved on is worse.

Menendez Expected to Face Federal Corruption Charges

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 01:04 PM PST

The Justice Department expects to charge Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, in an inquiry that has focused on his ties to a Florida eye doctor, an official said.

4 Nusra Front Leaders Said to Be Killed in Syria

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 12:56 PM PST

The deaths of so many top figures, if confirmed, would be a blow to the affiliate of Al Qaeda, one of the strongest insurgent factions in Syria's civil war.

Germany Sets Gender Quota in Boardrooms

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 12:16 PM PST

Germany passed a law Friday that requires some of Europe's biggest companies to give 30 percent of supervisory seats to women beginning next year.

Black Comedians in South Africa Put Power in the Punch Lines

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 12:04 PM PST

A thriving comedy scene is provocatively stretching the limits of what can be laughed at in the post-apartheid era.

China Blocks Web Access to ‘Under the Dome’ Documentary on Pollution

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 11:41 AM PST

"Under the Dome" had hundreds of millions of views on Chinese websites within days of its release, more than any other video in recent years, but websites were promptly ordered to delete it.

Monetary Policy: The New Jobs Report Shows Janet Yellen’s Quandary in a Nutshell

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 11:35 AM PST

Some numbers suggest the Fed should raise interest rates, but wages are still stagnant, and the number of people in the labor force just shrank.