| Switzerland’s Burn Centers Are Overwhelmed After New Year’s Fire
- Transfers of patients to hospitals in Germany, Italy and France began on Thursday. France said on Friday that 11 injury victims would be hospitalized there.
Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:16:01 +0000
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| Swiss Alps Ski Resort Fire: What We Know
- The fire at a bar in a popular ski resort killed around 40 people and injured more than 100, officials said. The cause was still unknown.
Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:26:37 +0000
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| Witnesses Recount Fire That Killed 40 in Switzerland
- It was a haven for the young, where they could find hot chocolate when they wanted quiet and affordable drinks when they did not. Then it turned into a place of death.
Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:37:46 +0000
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| In China, A.I. Finds Pancreatic Cancer That Doctors May Miss
- A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to apply A.I. to medicine’s tough problems.
Fri, 02 Jan 2026 05:00:13 +0000
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| Can the Most Indebted Team in Global Soccer Fix Its Finances?
- F.C. Barcelona’s liabilities have reached 2.5 billion euros, the result of financial mismanagement and vaulting ambition.
Fri, 02 Jan 2026 05:00:08 +0000
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| Mamdani Lays Out Agenda of ‘Affordability and Abundance’ on First Day in Office
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani acknowledged skeptics of his plans while reiterating that he would focus on working-class New Yorkers.
Fri, 02 Jan 2026 04:58:31 +0000
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| Mamdani Vows to Govern ‘Audaciously’ and Protect New York’s Vulnerable
- Zohran Mamdani gave his first public speech as mayor of New York City, after an inauguration that drew tens of thousands of people.
Fri, 02 Jan 2026 03:47:39 +0000
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| Search Is Suspended for Passenger Who Went Overboard From Cruise Ship
- The U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday that it halted its hourslong search for a 77-year-old woman who went overboard from a Holland America Line cruise ship near Cuba.
Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:56:16 +0000
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| How Japanese Scallops Became a Pawn in Diplomatic Tensions With China
- Beijing is using a ban on the humble mollusk to punish Japan over its apparent willingness to defend Taiwan.
Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:16:13 +0000
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| Mamdani’s First Orders Focus on Housing and Undoing Adams’s Decisions
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a flurry of executive orders on his first day as mayor of New York City. They were aimed at protecting tenants and revoking some of ex-Mayor Eric Adams’s past orders.
Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:31:12 +0000
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| Janet Fish, Painter of Luminous Still Lifes, Dies at 87
- From her student days, she stubbornly refused to follow popular artistic trends. Instead, she spent decades exploring the effects of light on glass.
Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:24:34 +0000
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| Venezuela Frees Dozens of Political Prisoners
- At least 80 people were released, including one with U.S. ties, though more than 800 remain detained in Venezuela for opposing President Nicolás Maduro’s rule, rights groups say.
Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:00:54 +0000
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| Iran Protests Turn Deadly as Violence and Anger Spread
- Financial pressures have fueled a fifth day of demonstrations around Iran, with at least one person killed in the protests so far, according to the authorities.
Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:03:10 +0000
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| Why New York City Needs Someone Like Mamdani
- The new mayor is an entirely familiar type of New York politician.
Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:58:20 +0000
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| This Diminutive Reptile Plays Rock-Paper-Scissors
- Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the hidden biology that makes this possible.
Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:57:05 +0000
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| Guinea’s Coup Leader Wins Election After Barring Leading Opponents
- Gen. Mamady Doumbouya, who seized power more than four years ago, took over 80 percent of the vote, according to a government-controlled agency that he set up.
Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:54:18 +0000
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| Russia Asks United States to Stop Pursuit of Fleeing Oil Tanker
- The tanker, which had been sailing to Venezuela to pick up oil, has claimed Russian protection, although the U.S. authorities say it is a stateless vessel.
Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:12:17 +0000
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| Toby Morton, a Comedy Writer, Owns the Trump Kennedy Center URL
- A comedy writer bought the web domain TrumpKennedyCenter.org and the satirical site he created is drawing attention amid the backlash over the institution’s renaming.
Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:52:18 +0000
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| For Some Nazi Loot, Value Is Measured on a Different Scale
- Heirs of families that suffered in the Holocaust have gotten back precious items: not treasured art, but the keepsakes of dead relatives.
Thu, 01 Jan 2026 10:00:16 +0000
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| ‘Visible Mending’: The Healing Powers of Knitting
- Crafters across Britain speak to how knitting can help us heal, even at our most broken.
Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:20:18 +0000
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