In Brazil’s Answer to Hollywood, Dreams and Drought Share the Stage A dusty town in the parched northeast has become the nation’s show business destination. But...
Japan Says China Aimed Military Radar at Its Fighter Jets Beijing disputed the accusation, the latest flare-up in a festering dispute between the two countries. Beijing...
Fire at a Nightclub in Goa, India, Kills at Least 25 Officials said they were investigating the blaze in the southwestern state of Goa, a popular...
Hong Kong Man Arrested After Posting Online About Deadly Fire The arrest was part of a crackdown on speech that the authorities say is inciting hatred...
Australia’s Social Media Ban for Under-16s Is Coming. The Teenagers Are Skeptical. The country is trying to wean children under 16 off the likes of TikTok,...
Israel Backed Gazans to Oppose Hamas. For One, It Ended Violently. Officials said Israel helped arm and back Yasser Abu Shabab’s Popular Forces, part of a...
Crayola Magnetic Blocks Are Recalled Over Choking Hazard Concerns Magnets in the toy, pip-Cubes, can fall out of the blocks and be swallowed by children, causing...
Venezuela’s Nobel Winner Will Go to Norway for Peace Prize, Official Says Venezuelan officials say María Corina Machado will be considered a fugitive if she goes...
Battlefield Picture Worsening for Ukraine as Trump Pushes Peace Plan Russian forces have advanced on several fronts recently. President Vladimir V. Putin signaled after talks with...
China’s National Security Office in Hong Kong Summons Foreign Journalists The authorities accused “some foreign media” of smearing the government’s response to a fire at a...
Survivors of the Deadly Hong Kong Fire Are in Limbo Hong Kong, with some of the world’s highest housing costs and inequality, must now figure out...
China’s Mad at Japan, and Pop Stars Are Paying for It Beijing is curbing Japanese movies, music and art as it seeks to punish Tokyo for...
What ‘Hamnet’ Lost (and Gained) on the Way From Page to Screen The filmmaker Chloé Zhao and the novelist-turned-screenwriter Maggie O’Farrell explained the changes they made...
Netflix Changes Course Again With Warner Bros. Deal The streaming giant has changed its strategy many times over the years. But the decision to get deeply...
EU Hits Elon Musk’s X With $140 Million Fine The case over online transparency has become a point of contention between the European Union and the...
Zelensky’s Government Sabotaged Oversight, Allowing Corruption in Ukraine to Fester Ukrainian leaders blame independent advisers for failing to prevent graft. A Times investigation found that President...
PCE Report Shows Consumer Prices Rose Slightly in September The most recent Personal Consumption Expenditures index was delayed because of the government shutdown. The most recent...
CNN Is Excluded From Netflix’s Warner Bros. Deal for Now The prospect of Paramount buying Warner Bros. Discovery had led CNN journalists to wonder if the...
Dashing Through a Season of Holiday Movies For one writer, putting together her annual roundup of streaming holiday movies requires open-mindedness — and a high tolerance...
Warner Bros. Discovery and Netflix Said to Be in Exclusive Talks Netflix would acquire Warner television and film studios as well as HBO Max in a...