Sinosphere Blog: Orphan’s Essay Sets Off Debate About Poverty in China

Sinosphere Blog: Orphan’s Essay Sets Off Debate About Poverty in China
S.E.C. Approves Rule on C.E.O. Pay Ratio
Spain Says Banker’s Seized Picasso Will Head Back Home
Mexicans Aren’t Buying Official Account of ‘El Chapo’ Escape
Seeing Likely Nominee, Hillary Clinton Hits Jeb Bush Hard
High Diving, a Crowd-Pleasing Sport, Pursues an Olympic Platform
Fox News Moderators Look for Ways to Keep 10 Candidates on Their Toes
It’s Either Iran Nuclear Deal or ‘Some Sort of War,’ Obama Warns
Jon Stewart, Sarcastic Critic of Politics and Media, Is Signing Off
Texas ID Law Called Breach of Voting Rights Act
Your Evening Briefing
Value of Iran Sanctions Relief Is Hard to Measure
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivors Pass Their Stories to a New Generation
Canceling Deal for 2 Warships, France Agrees to Repay Russia
Money, Lust and Kung Fu: Shaolin’s ‘C.E.O. Monk’ Is Under Fire
Réunion Debris Is Almost Surely From Flight 370, Officials Say
Pope Francis Urges Priests to Welcome Remarried Catholics
State of the Art: ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Online Could Spread
36 Hours: 36 Hours in Provence
Liquefied Natural Gas Makes Qatar an Energy Giant

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 11:20 PM PDT

In just over 300 Chinese characters, a 12-year-old girl's homework assignment told a story filled with tragedy to rival a novel. It was not fiction, though.

S.E.C. Approves Rule on C.E.O. Pay Ratio

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 09:29 PM PDT

Requiring companies to compare the chief executive's compensation with that of employees could further stoke a debate over income inequality.

Spain Says Banker’s Seized Picasso Will Head Back Home

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 08:45 PM PDT

Customs officials confiscated the painting, valued at nearly $30 million, after its owner's yacht left Spain for French waters.

Mexicans Aren’t Buying Official Account of ‘El Chapo’ Escape

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 07:52 PM PDT

In a country where corruption saturates government at virtually all levels, conspiracy theories are running rampant on how Joaquín Guzmán Loera fled prison.

Seeing Likely Nominee, Hillary Clinton Hits Jeb Bush Hard

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 06:45 PM PDT

Mrs. Clinton's aides, for the most part, believe Jeb Bush will win the Republican nomination, so she is jabbing at him on issues where they think he is vulnerable.

High Diving, a Crowd-Pleasing Sport, Pursues an Olympic Platform

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 06:16 PM PDT

The 27-meter high diving world championships were contested in Kazan, Russia, in what the sport's enthusiasts hoped would be a prelude to acceptance in the 2020 Olympics.

Fox News Moderators Look for Ways to Keep 10 Candidates on Their Toes

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 06:16 PM PDT

The Fox News team, including the moderators Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace, has spent weeks discussing how to handle the challenges of the first Republican presidential primary debate.

It’s Either Iran Nuclear Deal or ‘Some Sort of War,’ Obama Warns

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 06:04 PM PDT

President Obama portrayed the coming vote in Congress on the deal as the most consequential foreign policy decision for lawmakers since the vote to authorize the invasion of Iraq.

Jon Stewart, Sarcastic Critic of Politics and Media, Is Signing Off

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 05:46 PM PDT

Mr. Stewart attracted a generation of viewers ready to embrace an outlier whose exaggerations, in their view, carried more truth than conventional newscasts.

Texas ID Law Called Breach of Voting Rights Act

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 04:10 PM PDT

The court ruling centers on a state requirement that would-be voters produce some specific forms of government-issued photo identification.

Your Evening Briefing

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 02:59 PM PDT

Catch up on the day's top stories.

Value of Iran Sanctions Relief Is Hard to Measure

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 02:48 PM PDT

Even the Iranians do not seem to know how much money in impounded accounts overseas would be available to them.

Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivors Pass Their Stories to a New Generation

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 02:41 PM PDT

In a Japanese project, volunteers called "denshosha" spend time with elderly survivors of the bombing, learning their stories to pass them along.

Canceling Deal for 2 Warships, France Agrees to Repay Russia

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 01:58 PM PDT

Both countries announced the official cancellation of the 2011 deal for the two French warships, without specifying how much Russia had received.

Money, Lust and Kung Fu: Shaolin’s ‘C.E.O. Monk’ Is Under Fire

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 01:50 PM PDT

Much of China is transfixed by allegations that the abbot of the famed Shaolin Temple, now a commercial empire, is a swindler and serial philanderer.

Réunion Debris Is Almost Surely From Flight 370, Officials Say

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 01:37 PM PDT

Experts who examined the aircraft part found last week have "very strong presumptions" that it came from a Malaysian Boeing 777 that vanished in 2014.

Pope Francis Urges Priests to Welcome Remarried Catholics

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 12:48 PM PDT

In his first remarks to his general audience after a summer break, Francis reminded church leaders that divorced Catholics who remarry "are not at all excommunicated."

State of the Art: ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Online Could Spread

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 12:05 PM PDT

Some countries' demands for the erasure of search engine results on privacy grounds could soon affect even information available in the United States.

36 Hours: 36 Hours in Provence

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 11:15 AM PDT

The Roman-era town of Arles and the medieval walled city of Avignon combine a dense mix of architectural beauty, world-class art and sun-soaked Provençal gastronomy.

Liquefied Natural Gas Makes Qatar an Energy Giant

Posted: 05 Aug 2015 09:56 AM PDT

A rich natural gas field and a fleet of ships has turned Qatar, once a poor nation of fishers and pearl divers, into a major player in the global energy trade.