A charity’s corporate governance is in question after it allowed proceeds from an auction to be used for a staging of “Finding Neverland.”
There is a general feeling in the air that regulators should stand up to businesses that just ignore any rules they don’t like.
L’Étoile du Nord is a brasserie that opened in November inside the Gare du Nord’s bustling entrance hall. The food may be worth missing a train over.
The number of problem gamblers has risen by 50 percent in recent years, and campaigners blame a machine that is unique to British betting shops.
A Russian news outlet called the actor an “American propaganda loudspeaker” after he appeared in a video accusing Russia of undermining last year’s election.
Orouba Barakat and her daughter, Halla, were attacked in their apartment, and relatives blame the Syrian government for their deaths.
Speaking at the United Nations, Russia’s foreign minister said Obama administration policies hurt relations between Washington and Moscow, with effects still felt worldwide.
A judge ordered Laurent Louis, a far-right former lawmaker in Belgium, to visit a concentration camp every year for five years and write about his experience.
The Alternative for Germany may win seats in the federal Parliament, the first far-right party to do so since World War II.
London’s transportation agency criticized Uber’s corporate culture, the latest setback for a company that has faced an array of controversies this year.
From Kurdistan to Catalonia, the United States seems to reflexively oppose the creation of new countries. It should learn to go with the flow.
What would London without Uber look like? We want to hear from those in London about their experience, including those who work, or have worked, for Uber.
Secessionists. A government raid. Censorship. Cats. The internet. Naturally we were curious.
Escaping violence in Libya, Abode struggles to belong in a German town that has become a flashpoint of anti-immigrant anger.
The British author is skilled in simplifying and modernizing the vibrancy of Indian home cooking, and in explaining just how to do it.
There are places in Europe, like Slovakia and France, where people are finding ways to end historical discrimination.
Critics of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy say he has overreached in dealing with Catalan separatists.
The suspect, identified as Ahmed Hassan, 18, was also accused of using a banned explosive, the British police said.
As the president went low, the pope went high.
After witnessing Moscow’s meddling in the American and French elections, Germany had its guard up. But the Kremlin seems to be sitting this one out.
We want to hear from cyclists and other road users in London. Share your experiences, photos and videos.
What was on the turntable in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s studio? The answer is crucial to understanding his work.
Portugal treats addiction as a disease, not a crime.
Angela Merkel finally seems to understand that she is not just the leader of Germany, she’s the defender of internationalism.
More conciliatory than in the past, the prime minister offered some specifics aimed at soothing anxieties about a damaging “cliff-edge” withdrawal.
Art Berlin joins the popular Gallery Weekend as an opportunity for the art world’s international buyers to swoop in.
Five other men remain in custody over the Parsons Green subway explosion, which injured 30 people.
Dortmund survived the collapse of its coal and steel industries, which helped the city avoid the working-class alienation that has fed right-wing parties elsewhere.
The French president wants Trump to understand that sovereignty is best wielded through multilateralism
In the middle of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s speech at a Times Square hotel, a protester screamed: “You’re a terrorist. Get out of my country!”
For the Feast of San Gennaro, a tradition of Sicilian puppetry is revived.
Sébastien Bras, who runs Le Suquet restaurant in Laguiole, France, doesn’t want the stress. He’s not the first to seek to surrender the accolade.
The younger Mr. Speer ultimately had more influence on urban landscapes than his notorious father, from whom he sought to distance himself.
The decision to stage a part of the German contemporary art exhibition in the Greek capital helped create an $8 million shortfall
The model’s collaboration with Tommy Hilfiger, now in its third season, debuted at the Roundhouse this week. T followed along in the moments before the show.
New research suggests that the brain of a juvenile Neanderthal developed more slowly than that of a similarly aged Homo sapiens child, but scientists don’t yet know why.
Mrs. Bettencourt, ranked as the world’s richest woman, tried to live down her family’s fascist associations, and her final years were overtaken by scandal.
There has never been a better time to visit the Spanish capital, where the political and economic turmoil of the past decade has helped spur creativity and enterprise.
For 50 years, residents have acted out the story of their lives, in a kind of collective self-analysis. This year, they pondered whether their village can survive.
Authenticity in travel has become an increasingly implausible endeavor.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s message of strength has dominated the election campaign, but poverty, economic insecurity and income disparity have grown during her tenure.
Florian Philippot said the National Front was taking “a terrible step backward” as it struggled to regroup.
Spend 36 Hours in Madrid, Spain’s vibrant capital.
On the London stage, a portrait of a great British cinematographer falls flat — but a searing portrait of rural life soars.
Thanks to the presence of the country’s biggest and most important fish market, Milan’s post-Expo restaurant landscape serves the highest quality seafood.
Burberry's President and Chief Creative Officer captured his time backstage, curating an exhibition — and more.
A local official ordered hunters to kill the rare animal last week after it crossed over from Poland. “Animals don’t know country borders,” a conservationist said.
A shortlist of places to relax, enjoy a meal, shop a bit — and find some peace between the shows during fashion week (and always).
A new set of proposals presented by officials in Brussels seek to tax technology companies differently, but risk being seen as an effort to target American tech giants.
The Spanish police have raided regional government offices and detained at least 14 people less than two weeks before a vote Madrid has vowed to block.
One of the most perilous and least known battlefields of the war was in the Dolomites. Corpses are still emerging.
Documenta, the German contemporary art exhibition that some view as the world’s most important, ran into financial trouble when it expanded to Greece.
The British artist Gillian Wearing presented her design of a bronze statue of Millicent Garrett Fawcett, the women’s rights campaigner.
The architect Vincenzo De Cotiis combines futuristic furniture with 18th-century finishes to create a home that’s entirely of the moment.
The British men’s wear designer Paul Surridge was a surprise choice for the top job. Who is he, and what are his plans for the house?
The Finnish economy has improved since the global financial crisis, and demand for housing is strong in major cities like Helsinki.
A British television news report said that the online retailer’s algorithms were automatically offering items that could be used to create an explosive device.
A four-bedroom, one-bath home in a classical-style building is on the market for $1,398,000.
What if your most important experiences could live on after you die?
The document, stolen from an armored cabinet, suggests the Vatican is not telling all it knows about the kidnapping 34 years ago of a teenage girl.
Leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras discovers his inner American.
The investigation into the London high-rise fire may test laws under which organizations can be prosecuted for deaths. Individual charges are also being considered.
Prosecutors in the Swiss city are investigating the disposal of about $120,000 in high-denomination bank notes.
Giorgio Armani and Donatella Versace both dazzled with collections from their younger, more playful lines in London.
The defendants, who stepped over or around an unconscious 83-year-old man to make their way to an A.T.M., were fined $2,900 to $4,300.
Dine at pubs (the food is first-rate), avoid July and August travel, hire a driver-guide.
At a meeting with President Emmanuel Macron of France at the United Nations, Mr. Trump said he got the idea after watching the Bastille Day parade.
David Cameron’s worst mistake is ruining his best initiative.
With an inflammatory essay, he has injected himself into the debate over how to leave the E.U. — and possibly devised an intricate route to the top.
Two young men who stayed at a foster home in Sunbury-on-Thames, outside London, have been arrested in the Parsons Green subway bombing.
The former European Parliament president once seemed poised to give the German chancellor a real challenge. It did not happen.
With just two weeks to dig, a team of local people uncovered a spectacular mosaic, what experts are calling the most important of its kind in 50 years.
The prime minister was accused of attempting to cover up a recommendation from his father supporting clemency for a convicted child abuser.
Inspired by the success of Red Rooster Harlem, the celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson opened a twin restaurant in Shoreditch. But can Harlem be replicated?
From the Jewish districts of historic cities to small, out-of-the-way towns once known as shtetls, the author finds remnants of the past at every turn.
The likes of Google and Amazon could see their tax bills rise, and the Fed appears to be poised to start selling off securities.
Four Americans, all in their 20s, were at a train station in Marseille when a woman threw acid on them, officials said. The police said “nothing suggests” it was a terrorist attack.
With climate change, jellyfish are booming in the Mediterranean, to the point that researchers say there may be little to do but to live with them.
Maps illustrate the thousands of structures damaged by the storm, on three of the hardest-hit islands: St. Martin, Anguilla and Barbuda.
The 21-year-old man, who was not identified, was arrested late Saturday in Hounslow, the Metropolitan Police said.
The French capital built on its past failures, putting sports first, stressing unity, pushing its environmental credentials and embracing the “L word”: lobbying.
The veteran pols on either side of the vituperative, vertiginous Brexit debate spar.
Angela Merkel doesn’t need you to call her one either.
An 18-year-old man was detained in southeastern England, and the police searched at least one house about three miles from Heathrow Airport in London.
The Times visited tiny Jost Van Dyke, whose 298 residents set up a de facto command center at a bar that has some of the ravaged island’s only working generators.
Two Americans have accused officers of raping them, an unsettling allegation for a city that relies on money spent by foreign students and reveres its Carabinieri police force.
Owners from the United States are more prominent than ever in British soccer, but not everyone is cheering their inroads, or their results.
Londoners like to “keep calm and carry on.” But there’s a problem with such insouciance.
A priest working as a diplomat in Washington has returned to the Vatican amid suspicions by American officials that he possessed child pornography.
A short list of places to relax, enjoy a meal, shop a bit — and find some peace between the shows during fashion week (and always).
The president suggested British intelligence officials were aware of whoever was behind a terrorist attack on in the London subway.
The blast on a subway train caused panic and disrupted services; 29 people were injured. The city has suffered multiple terrorist attacks this year.
Now that Cassini has gone out in a blaze of glory, here's our guide to cosmic missions over the next decade that you should get excited about now.
Britain was hit by a terrorist attack on Friday morning, when a crude device exploded on a crowded London Underground train. Passengers described seeing a wall of fire.
The young British embroidery maestro, who develops all her work on her computer, is moving into prints in a bid for new audiences.
She trains in New Zealand and Chile, races in Europe and will compete in the Olympics. To fight fatigue, she naps, jogs and snacks on dried mangoes.
The Agia Zoni II tanker sank on Sunday while anchored off Salamis Island, near Greece’s main port of Piraeus.
An investigation of Britain’s deadliest blaze in more than a century will seek to uncover what led to the disaster and who should be held accountable.
The highest office in the land has been held by a woman for 12 years. It’s all the other offices that still pose a problem for women in Germany.
Increasingly, hotel owners, walking tour companies and local travel companies are promoting the idea of experiencing Santorini by foot.
A DNA analysis has shown that remains from a famous 10th-century grave site belonged to a woman. But some experts don’t know how much that proves.
In Brussels, the architect David Van Severen honored a building’s architectural history while renovating it for his family.
Un nombre record d’enfants dans les quartiers défavorisés ne savent pas nager, contrairement à d’autres secteurs de la ville et d’autres régions de France.
One of Italy’s most underrated destinations is filled with remnants of an ancient past, complemented by a host of new bars, cafes and boutiques.
Many visitors to Santorini come for its pristine beaches, but its open secret is the winding hiking trails that overlook the sea.
Addressing the European Parliament, Jean-Claude Juncker proposed streamlining the leadership of the 28-nation bloc — an idea that could in theory eliminate his own job.
Frank Caserta, sought as a suspect in a stabbing in Little Italy in May, was arrested on Tuesday in the Florida Panhandle.
A diesel emissions crisis has put the spotlight on links between the auto industry — responsible for Germany’s most important export — and the country’s leaders.
It will take an eight-member team three weeks to dismantle and remove the 140-ton mass of disposable wipes and grease.
Hotel Eden, Hotel Lutetia, the Palace, Adare Manor and the Fairmont Empress are all over a century old. Here’s how they modernized (spas included).
The firm’s financial failure was hastened by a race-baiting campaign it undertook in South Africa that spiraled into a disaster.
Recalling the original critical response to pathbreaking productions directed by the founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The purchase of Russian weapons by a longtime NATO member is likely to stir unease in Washington and Brussels.
Through the years, a strategy has emerged — book a hotel for the night before you arrive, never worry about the weather, make a few (only a few) reservations.
Arab visitors have gone to Piestany for vacation for decades. But a surge in Islamophobia now threatens to make a familiar destination less welcoming.
Increasingly, they don’t simply reflect modern technology. They play a key role in it.
Almost a decade after the Icelandic city was forced to reinvent itself, it’s now a health-and-wellness destination.
Rallies were held in a number of cities, and union workers went on strike, to oppose the French president’s planned changes to the employment code.
A detailed review by competition regulators would delay the $15 billion acquisition by 21st Century Fox and cast further uncertainty over the proposed deal.
After two years of sniping (and worse) from critics, Chris Dercon has finally taken the helm of Berlin’s Volksbühne theater.
Hundreds of thousands of Catalans celebrated their national day in Barcelona, vowing to hold an Oct. 1 referendum on whether to break from Spain.
A race that was close in opinion polls, the election was viewed as a referendum on taxes, immigration, energy policy and European integration.
Food and water were in short supply on many islands in the Caribbean after Hurricane Irma, and witnesses spoke of a disintegration of law and order.
With the vote on Sept. 24, read New York Times coverage to learn more about the election and the issues that have been roiling Germany and Europe.
With German elections approaching, the chancellor highlighted her global status by urging negotiations with North Korea based on the model of the nuclear deal with Iran.
When his Rome apartment grew too small for his collections, an American curator found a historic home — and layers of lost history.
Mikheil Saakashvili, a former president of Georgia who is stripped of citizenship there and in Ukraine, is an exceptional position: He’s a stateless ex-head of state.
An ancient Catholic procession featuring hooded faithful and parades attracts thousands of tourists to a village in Italy’s south.
Nearly 500 servicemen and civilians are on trial, accused of planning last year’s bloody coup attempt, a proceeding that has stirred deep passions.
As America and Britain reel backward, Ireland’s first openly gay, half-Indian, youngest-ever prime minister is leaping toward the future.
The former Biennale des Antiquaires gets a new name and a new leader, and it will become a yearly event.
Rats in northeast France repeatedly bit a disabled girl as she slept, according to her parents, who say they were upstairs at the time.
Italian authorities are investigating the accusations, and Italy’s defense minister has said there appeared to be “some basis” to the allegations.
As other villages in Slovakia have withered and vanished, Spissky Hrhov is thriving, along with the Roma residents it has worked hard to integrate into the community.
Hungary once celebrated the lifting of the Iron Curtain. Now it blocks entry to refugees.
Almost three months after the deadly inferno in a London high-rise, only 24 of 158 households have permanent housing, and the outrage is growing at the slow pace of finding them new homes.
Foreign investors are snapping up clubs in Belgium’s second division. The question everyone from Tubize to Leuven is asking is: Why?
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the indictment of a former official accused of helping Iran evade sanctions imposed by the United States.
The region’s latest vote on separation, scheduled for Oct. 1, is significantly riskier than previous efforts and thrusts Spain into uncharted territory.
Sixteen performances will be rescheduled, disappointing ticket holders from as far away as Oklahoma and Japan.
Deborah Needleman, who visited ancient and now semi-desolate hillside villages for T, shares how to get the experience.
James Delbourgo’s “Collecting the World” recounts the life of Sir Hans Sloane, a pioneering natural scientist.
Two residents from St. Martin island's two nations, the French St. Martin and the Dutch St. Maarten, describe Irma’s destruction.
This stubborn attachment to Brexit is like being tied to a dying animal.
Near-empty villages try to hold on to an endangered way of life — and some of the country’s most important artisanal traditions.
Images show the extent of the devastation in the eastern Caribbean islands directly in the path of Hurricane Irma.
Almost 2,500 rural villages have nearly no one living in them at all.
A younger generation of winemakers has created reasons to care about Cahors.
“We have lost our ambition,” the French leader said on his first state visit to Greece, calling for a more united Europe in a speech short on specifics.
Swedish banks’ generous dividends are attractive – and if Nordea’s move to Finland leads to lighter regulation, they may get more so.