South Korea’s Top Court Upholds Life Term for Captain in Ferry Sinking

South Korea’s Top Court Upholds Life Term for Captain in Ferry Sinking
Leaked Emirati Emails Could Threaten Peace Talks in Libya
Critic’s Notebook: Justin Bieber and One Direction, Joyless Boys
Public Housing Nationwide May Be Subject to Smoking Ban
Kurds, Backed by U.S. Air Power, Open Offensive Against ISIS
Sale Offers a Reason for Relief at Sotheby’s
Nephews of Venezuela’s First Lady Face Drug Charges
G.O.P. Fight Now a Battle Over What Defines a Conservative
André Glucksmann, French Philosopher Who Renounced Marxism, Dies at 78
Putin Calls for Inquiry Into Claims of Russian Drug Use
Volkswagen Scandal Highlights Europe’s Loose Auto Rules
More Young Women Waiting to Leave Home
Mexico’s Governing Party Vows to Stop Using Neuromarketing to Study Voters
E.U. Move to Label Israeli Settlement Goods Strains Ties
Drinking In the Beauty of Picasso’s Sculptures at MoMA
Groupies, From Sex Symbols to Style Icons
Korean War Memorial Group Finds More Aid in Korea Than in U.S.
Israelis Condemn E.U. Labeling Move
Afghans Demonstrate for More Security After Seven Hostages Are Beheaded
Life After ISIS and Assad: A Journey in a Free Syria

Posted: 12 Nov 2015 01:12 AM PST

The court said that "if there had been a timely order to evacuate the passengers, a considerable number of victims would have escaped and lived."

Leaked Emirati Emails Could Threaten Peace Talks in Libya

Posted: 12 Nov 2015 01:07 AM PST

The United Arab Emirates violated an arms embargo by shipping weapons to one side of the Libyan conflict while offering a job to a U.N. diplomat drafting a peace accord, emails show.

Critic’s Notebook: Justin Bieber and One Direction, Joyless Boys

Posted: 12 Nov 2015 12:47 AM PST

"Purpose" and "Made in the A.M.," new albums from pop's leading young male stars, are strategic, but not very much fun.

Public Housing Nationwide May Be Subject to Smoking Ban

Posted: 11 Nov 2015 11:00 PM PST

A proposed federal rule, to be announced on Thursday, opens the latest front in the long-running campaign to curb unwanted exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke.

Kurds, Backed by U.S. Air Power, Open Offensive Against ISIS

Posted: 11 Nov 2015 09:45 PM PST

The move also sought to cut a major jihadist supply line between Syria and the Iraqi city of Mosul.

Sale Offers a Reason for Relief at Sotheby’s

Posted: 11 Nov 2015 09:01 PM PST

If art buyers were feeling a bit of auction fatigue going into Sotheby's contemporary art evening sale — the sixth auction in seven days — they did not show it in their bidding for several major works.

Nephews of Venezuela’s First Lady Face Drug Charges

Posted: 11 Nov 2015 05:54 PM PST

The two men, relatives of the wife of President Nicolás Maduro, were arrested in Haiti and turned over to United States officials, a person close to the investigation said.

G.O.P. Fight Now a Battle Over What Defines a Conservative

Posted: 11 Nov 2015 05:45 PM PST

The debate opened a new season of the campaign shaped by the glaring policy fissures that are dividing Republicans, from immigration and bank regulation to taxes and national security.

André Glucksmann, French Philosopher Who Renounced Marxism, Dies at 78

Posted: 11 Nov 2015 05:31 PM PST

After publishing his most influential work, "The Master Thinkers," Mr. Glucksmann became one of France's most prominent public intellectuals.

Putin Calls for Inquiry Into Claims of Russian Drug Use

Posted: 11 Nov 2015 04:53 PM PST

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia ordered the investigation in the wake of a World Anti-Doping Agency report that said Russian sports were plagued by state-sponsored doping.

Volkswagen Scandal Highlights Europe’s Loose Auto Rules

Posted: 11 Nov 2015 04:46 PM PST

Unlike in the United States, automakers have the discretion to change their engines' performance settings before emissions tests.

More Young Women Waiting to Leave Home

Posted: 11 Nov 2015 03:43 PM PST

Cultural shifts and economic factors are keeping millennial women home in numbers not seen since 1940, an analysis of Census Bureau data suggests.

Mexico’s Governing Party Vows to Stop Using Neuromarketing to Study Voters

Posted: 11 Nov 2015 03:03 PM PST

The leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, says it will stick to campaign tools like polls and political intuition in its future campaigns.

E.U. Move to Label Israeli Settlement Goods Strains Ties

Posted: 11 Nov 2015 01:45 PM PST

Officials insisted the guidelines were not a new policy — merely a clarification of existing rules — but Israel quickly denounced the move as a form of discrimination.

Drinking In the Beauty of Picasso’s Sculptures at MoMA

Posted: 11 Nov 2015 01:42 PM PST

How conservators pieced together a once-in-a-lifetime show.

Groupies, From Sex Symbols to Style Icons

Posted: 11 Nov 2015 01:30 PM PST

When Pamela Des Barres and other backstage women came to prominence in 1969, the news media focused on their brazen sexuality. Now the focus is on their fashion.

Korean War Memorial Group Finds More Aid in Korea Than in U.S.

Posted: 11 Nov 2015 01:05 PM PST

The foundation does not have the money it needs to maintain the memorial on the National Mall, and what it does have came from South Korean corporations.

Israelis Condemn E.U. Labeling Move

Posted: 11 Nov 2015 12:42 PM PST

Officials from Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization disagreed on whether the European Union should label goods from Israeli settlements, and a factory manager spoke out against the move.

Afghans Demonstrate for More Security After Seven Hostages Are Beheaded

Posted: 11 Nov 2015 11:20 AM PST

Thousands took the remains of seven ethnic Hazara civilians beheaded by an ISIS-linked group to the presidential palace during the demonstration in Kabul.

Life After ISIS and Assad: A Journey in a Free Syria

Posted: 11 Nov 2015 11:18 AM PST

The police are gone, and militias have flourished, snarling traffic with checkpoints. And abandoned government offices house ad hoc administrations that struggle to keep the lights on.