Christián Quezada Vasquez died after losing control during a stunt in which motorcyclists ride around a spherical cage, the circus company said.
Over nearly four years of wartime leadership, analysts say the Ukrainian leader has repeatedly played weak hands wisely. A U.S. peace plan may be his biggest test.
The watch belonged to Isidor Straus, a co-owner of Macy’s who was traveling first class on the Titanic with his wife when it sank in April 1912.
Farida Khelfa modeled for Gaultier, Alaïa and more. In turn, they gave her clothes. Now she’s letting go of 200 items from her fabled wardrobe.
A small corner of Belgium is recruiting ordinary citizens to help create policies. Participants say it’s renewed their faith in government.
Meetings in Geneva will include European officials, as the Trump administration’s pushes Kyiv to accept a 28-point peace plan to end the war with Russia.
Russia is remaking Mariupol, which was devastated by a brutal siege in 2022. Ukrainians seeking to move back are finding it hard to recognize the city, or to reclaim their property.
If Ukraine is forced to surrender to these terms by Thursday, Thanksgiving will no longer be an American holiday. It will become a Russian holiday.
The deal would combine two of the country’s major newspaper groups, a move likely to attract antitrust scrutiny.
The meeting is scheduled for Saturday afternoon on the sidelines of the G20 summit in South Africa. The White House plan calls for Ukraine to make significant concessions to Russia.
Russian missiles hit apartment buildings in Ternopil this week, far from the war’s front line. Dozens of civilians, including children, were killed.
At the site of an apartment building in western Ukraine where a Russian strike killed dozens of people, the New York Times reporter Kim Barker heard reactions to a 28-point U.S. proposal to end the war.
The title of Daniel Swift’s book “The Dream Factory,” about the creative and capitalist conditions of Elizabethan drama, tellingly evokes the commercial aspirations of old Hollywood.
More young people are steering clear of alcohol. The deepening cultural shift has spawned an epidemic of brewery closures.
The European Union said the decision was prompted by sabotage attacks in Europe, but Russians living abroad say Europe is punishing ordinary people.
President Trump is pressing Kyiv to accept an outcome that yields to President Vladimir V. Putin’s demands.
While the White House has cautioned that the proposal is still in “flux,” its contours reflect maximalist demands made by Russia throughout the war that Ukraine has consistently rejected.
The Trump administration has proposed a 28-point peace plan designed to end the Russia-Ukraine war. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that his country was facing a “difficult choice.”
The Ukrainian president’s options are narrowing as he is confronted with a 28-point proposal drafted by American and Russian envoys.
The class-action lawsuit is the latest push against the Chinese retailer in France, where protests outside its first store broke out earlier this month.
The discovery of a mountain of garbage near a highway is the latest example of what experts say is a growing problem of criminal organizations profiting from illegal dumping.
A mountain of rubbish was found next to a highway in the English countryside, prompting residents and British officials alike to wonder how “fly-tipping,” or illegal dumping, on this scale could have gone undetected.
Nathan Gill was sentenced to 10 and a half years on Friday after admitting he was paid to make pro-Russian speeches in the European Parliament.
The Chicago-born curator Naomi Beckwith has been given free rein at the Palais de Tokyo to examine how American artists responded to thinkers from France.
La popular plataforma de juegos dijo que la herramienta estaba diseñada para impedir que los niños chateen con usuarios mayores que no conocen.
In this year’s contest, a campaign by Israel to encourage voting for its entrant drew criticism.
The 28-point proposal would require Kyiv to surrender territory, reduce the size of its army and relinquish some weaponry, according to officials familiar with the proposal.
The popular gaming platform said the tool was designed to stop children from chatting with older users they didn’t know.
Sanna Marin was celebrated as a pathbreaking feminist when she became Finland’s prime minister at age 34. Two years after leaving office, she’s trying to turn a scandal over a leaked dancing video into a battle cry.
The government plans to double the period needed for many legal immigrants to become permanent residents, while cutting it for higher-rate taxpayers.
In one of her very few interviews since the museum heist, Laurence des Cars said the plan would increase much-needed security, but critics say it is too focused on new construction.
The Trump administration has floated a 28-point peace plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine as rescue crews continued to search for survivors of a deadly Russian strike in western Ukraine.
Some in Kyiv expressed confusion over the Trump administration’s multiple diplomatic tracks as Washington tries to revive negotiations.
No hace mucho tiempo, los grandes atentados eran una preocupación diaria. ¿Por qué parece que las cosas han cambiado?
The country’s anti-graft agencies have taken a cinematic approach to revealing a scandal that has touched President Volodymyr Zelensky’s inner circle.
A visitor to Italy had to abandon an S.U.V. after it conked out just minutes from the rental agency. Then he got another surprise: a hefty repair bill.
Los jóvenes españoles se sienten cada vez más atraídos por el dictador Francisco Franco. Por eso, el gobierno está diseñando aplicaciones, juegos y camisetas para promover la democracia.
Young Spaniards are increasingly drawn to the dictator Francisco Franco. So the government is designing apps, games and T-shirts to promote democracy.
A pair of organ works that scholars believe were written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were premiered in Leipzig this week and added to the composer’s official catalog.
Mientras el presidente Volodímir Zelenski intenta reanimar las conversaciones de paz, el país sufre una oleada de ataques generalizados.
The 28-point proposal, which comes as the Trump administration tries to restart settlement talks, includes demands long rejected by Kyiv as nonstarters.
Not that long ago, big attacks were a daily concern. We look at why it feels different now.
For more than five decades, the ceramist Magdalene Odundo has been making abstract, time-intensive vessels that recall bodies in motion.
Four members of the Bocek family, including two young children, died while visiting Turkey from Germany this month. The authorities have arrested 11 people in the case.
The virus circulating this year is more virulent and has been spreading faster and earlier than usual.
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom said Northern Ireland’s public schools must include the study of faiths other than Christianity.
The move aims to prevent “touts,” or scalpers, from charging exorbitant prices for sought-after shows.
A deadly Russian barrage of missiles and drones in Ukraine came as President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Turkey in a bid to revive peace talks to end his country’s war with Russia.
Uncertainty over the availability of the company’s chips, which are used in cars and electronics, had added to concerns of a global shortage.
An investigation into the state-owned nuclear power company has reached members of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s inner circle.
Some psychologists and parents argued that it risked glamorizing the condition, but one performer described the experience as empowering: “Onstage, I can be who I really am.”
An anti-Zelensky political coalition is coalescing as the president’s allies are accused of enriching themselves while the country’s soldiers die on the battlefield.
Extreme heat causes cows to produce less milk. This poses problems in cheese-obsessed Italy, especially as it tries to meet growing demand for favorites like burrata.
Refugees who poured into the country a decade ago fared better when they landed in the more prosperous West, an enduring legacy of reunification.
At least 19 people were killed in the city of Ternopil when missiles hit a residential building, the authorities there said.
Una investigación del Departamento de Comercio podría imponer tarifas prohibitivas a marcas italianas, desde Barilla hasta Rummo, desatando temores de que la pasta auténtica desaparezca de las estanterías estadounidenses.
European chipmakers need TSMC’s help to grow their own semiconductor supply chain, but the chip giant’s Taiwanese suppliers find Europe a tough place to do business.
Un supuesto grupo de ayuda humanitaria vendió pasajes de avión que llevaron a personas palestinas a Sudáfrica. El gobierno de ese país cree que las condiciones son sospechosas.
Poland said two Ukrainians working with Russia were responsible for two devices on the train tracks of a main supply line to Ukraine, with one causing a minor explosion.
Two devices on a main supply line to Ukraine were intended to derail passing trains but failed, the prime minister said, and the two suspects fled the country.
Britain’s domestic intelligence agency said China was using headhunters to gather intelligence from lawmakers and parliamentary staff members.
The Norwegian National Ballet was nervous about taking a new work about a Sami uprising to the area where the historical event took place.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine says he has new proposals to kick-start negotiations with Russia that have been stalled for months.
A street sign will be unveiled on 34th Street to honor a long-serving diplomat. For years, he was an emissary without a country.
At a time of rising xenophobia and nativism, their work examines the meeting of different cultures, and their own right to belong.
The company that won a huge verdict against Greenpeace earlier this year has asked a North Dakota court to block a countersuit in the Netherlands.
Robyn McCutcheon, the first American diplomat to come out as transgender, helped to shape personnel and foreign policy at the State Department. The country she served doesn’t feel like home anymore.
Según un estudio, al menos 28.000 millones de dólares vinculados a actividades ilícitas han entrado en las bolsas de criptomonedas en los dos últimos años.
Los “paleontólogos ciudadanos” pueden conservar los fósiles que descubran en los alrededores del mayor puerto de Europa. Lo único que les piden los profesionales es que se lo comuniquen.
Ukraine understands this. Europe should get on board with it, too.
The French government is trying to make the case that governments can call out foreign malign influence campaigns and protect speech.
Russia and China abstained. The vote provides a legal mandate for the Trump administration’s vision of how to move past the cease-fire to rebuild the war-ravaged enclave after two years of war.
Varias personas que conocen al sospechoso lo describen como un hombre alegre, generoso y que había sido un piloto estrella del motocross.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, trying to get a grip on a feverish immigration debate, is introducing a hard-line, contentious policy on refugees.
Dijana Hrka became the face of protest after her son and 15 other people died in a railway station collapse in Serbia. Her hunger strike lasted 16 days.
Donald Tusk said unidentified saboteurs had tried to “blow up a train” on a route crucial for getting aid into Ukraine.
European policymakers are crafting changes to scale back and simplify landmark rules for A.I. and data privacy, in a shift from an aggressive regulatory period.
Some in Ukraine criticized the 10-year timeline for the warplanes and other defense equipment, but France called it a long-term commitment to the country.
The European Union wants to finance Ukraine’s war efforts using a loan based on Russia’s frozen assets in Belgium. If that falls through, there’s no easy alternative.
“Citizen paleontologists” can keep the fossils they uncover around Europe’s largest port. All the professionals ask is that those amateurs let them know.
First they came for whom?
Opposition-minded Russians who remain in the country are trying to keep politically active in whatever ways they can.
As President Trump has championed crypto and the industry has gone mainstream, funds from scammers and other criminal groups have flowed onto major crypto exchanges.
He was an architect with no training as an actor whose life was changed by a chance encounter. He inspired rave reviews and a New Yorker short story.
Under the new rules, people granted asylum would have to wait 20 years, rather than the current five, before applying for permanent residency.
The cold weather, which comes on the heels of a storm that caused flooding in Wales, is expected to jolt Britain out of its recent run of mild temperatures.
He had been best known as a daring urban dirt-bike rider who had pulled off stunts at iconic sites in Paris, according to several friends.
En los conventos de todo el país, la tradición de vender dulces sigue viva.
Since her son was killed with 15 others in a railway station collapse in Serbia, Dijana Hrka has become the face of widespread anti-government protests.
More than a dozen Italian pasta makers, accused of dumping their product in the United States, face tariffs of over 100 percent.
Investigating the discovery of a seemingly long-lost diamond had both the intrigue of a mystery novel and the fact-checking hurdles of a history paper.
Under the Syrian dictator’s rule, the wives and children of rebels were seized as leverage. Some are now speaking about their trauma.
Asking students to drill down on their schoolwork amid an array of digital distractions is inimical to learning.
But left unspoken at a Vatican meeting with film stars were the deep divisions over issues like abortion and homosexuality.
Frankie, a young Caribbean Flamingo, flew 130 miles from captivity. Her keepers said they would likely have to leave her in France.
The question of how to be a public broadcaster for everyone isn’t going to get easier, but the British broadcaster can do better in the attempt.
With board members and executives deadlocked over how to respond, the news organization kept silent for days, allowing a controversy to snowball.
Moscow’s attacks on gas supplies, the main source of warmth for most Ukrainian households, could plunge millions into the cold.
The State Department’s search for leftist groups to designate as terrorist organizations appears rooted in President Trump’s executive order on domestic groups that he calls antifa.
When she studied acting in London in the 1950s, she was told she was unlikely to find work. She ended up starting one of the country’s foremost Black theaters.
Gnocchi Parisienne is what the French call this speedy take on potato gratin, which uses store-bought potato gnocchi instead of sliced potatoes.
She maintained a triangular correspondence with the two men, who overshadowed the significant contributions she made to the field of psychoanalysis.
The Trump administration wants the Security Council to adopt a resolution that has the 20-point U.S. plan annexed, effectively making it international law.
The exit by RedBird Capital Partners comes months after it agreed to buy control of the media company in a deal that valued it at $658 million.
The diamond-encrusted jewel, which the 19th-century French emperor wore on his hat, was lost along with other valuables as he retreated from his final battle.
Russia fired hundreds of drones and more than a dozen missiles at Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, killing several people and damaging neighborhoods across the city.
Some of the most impressive photographs on display at the Paris Photo Fair were made many decades ago but are now being seen anew or, in some cases, for the first time.
Xu Chao admitted to multiple attacks against female Chinese students over a three-year period, confessing to drugging, assaulting and filming his victims.
The deal would reduce an extraordinarily high tariff rate that had threatened to cripple Swiss exports.
A strike that killed six was the latest in a series of aerial assaults, many of which have targeted the power grid in an effort to deprive Ukrainians of energy as winter looms.
The revelations are a remarkable reversal for the Ukrainian president, who once presented himself as a leader who would clean up the country’s politics.
Buyers can find a classic apartment in Vitoria-Gasteiz, a San Sebastián unit in a belle epoque building, and a contemporary house on the city outskirts.
President Volodymyr Zelensky removed Odesa’s mayor, raising fears he might be using his wartime powers to tighten control over opposition-run cities.
President William Ruto’s government acts as an arm of an industry whose leaders compare women to dogs and blame them for their own abuse, a Times investigation found.
The BBC said it would not rebroadcast a misleadingly edited documentary but added, “We strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim.”
Newly released files from Jeffrey Epstein include correspondence with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson, the former British ambassador to Washington.
Several memorials were held in honor of the more than 130 people who were killed by Islamic State militants in coordinated attacks in and around Paris in 2015.
Lisette Model’s candid and cruel portraits spawned an American genre. But the key to understanding her might lie in Europe, where she was born.
Military analysts and some Ukrainian commanders worry that Kyiv may be repeating the mistake of staying in an embattled city longer than it should, aiming to inflict far more casualties than it suffers.
The Faroe Islands, rugged green specks in the North Atlantic, are an underdog. Most of the guys on the team have day jobs.
The Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk is on the verge of becoming another shattered trophy for the Russian Army.
The 1961 film, which was banned in Spain, has been restored and revived in a limited run at Film Forum.
A decade ago, Islamic State militants killed 130 people in an assault that shocked France. Some survivors are still struggling, but for many of their compatriots, memories of the attacks are growing more distant.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said no one raised the Caribbean military operation in closed-door meetings at a G7 summit. But ministers from France and the European Union publicly called them unlawful.
The government pledged 2.5 billion pounds for initial site work, but the decision to build a small, modular design may disappoint others, including the U.S. nuclear industry.
Prosecutors say a Syrian security official accused of torture hid in plain sight in Europe for years, protected by Israeli and Austrian intelligence agents.
A geomagnetic storm that made the aurora borealis visible farther south than normal is expected to continue for another night. But clouds may obscure your view.
AIDOL, Russia’s first artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robot, collapsed onstage moments after it was revealed at a technology event in Moscow on Tuesday.
The Belgian government is in talks with the Trump administration to save birth control stranded in a warehouse, but another shipment has been incorrectly stored.
Boualem Sansal, an Algerian-French writer, was arrested on accusations of undermining national security during a visit to his homeland a year ago and sentenced to five years in prison.
An attempt by Keir Starmer’s allies to undercut a rival has forced into the open a party debate over whether to replace the prime minister.
Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise.
A C-130 cargo plane returning to Turkey from Azerbaijan crashed in Georgia, killing 20 members of Turkey’s Air Force.
A 9.51-carat blue stone that once belonged to the heiress Bunny Mellon sold for $7 million less than at its last auction, a sign of profound shifts in the diamond industry.
La atribulada estrella de la tauromaquia afirma que ha enfrentado a su último toro. Los aficionados apreciaron su talento, pero también su honestidad al abordar su lucha contra sus problemas de salud mental.
Leiden, a city whose university is often called the Oxford of the Netherlands, features museums, gardens, murals and plenty of ways to stretch your mind.
José Antonio Morante Camacho says he has fought his last bull. Fans appreciated his artistry but also his honesty about his struggles with mental illness.
Clothes with extreme proportions and surreal silhouettes can’t help but make a statement.
Astronomers identified more than 3,000 stars associated with the cluster, and there might be even more.
The Turkish defense minister said that 20 Air Force servicemen died when their military cargo plane crashed after taking off from Azerbaijan on Tuesday.
Legal experts say President Trump’s litigation track record offers both hope and warning to the British public broadcaster, which he has threatened with a $1 billion suit.
Una cueva oscura en los Balcanes alberga lo que, según los investigadores, es una singular obra de cooperación entre dos especies de araña habitualmente hostiles.
Prosecutors accused Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, of leading a criminal organization. The opposition called the case politically motivated.
The photo of a dapper man in a fedora sparked many questions: Was the person real? A Sherlock Holmes-inspired detective on the case? Or just being very French?
Official advice provided to the government before its ban on Palestine Action underestimated the significant public protests that followed, records show.
How fashion connected a designer, a farmer, Grindr and a herd of male-oriented rams.
A German sheep farmer and a Los Angeles fashion designer have collaborated to produce a knitwear collection made from the wool of sheep that have been saved from the slaughterhouse.
David Szalay became the first British Hungarian to win the prestigious Booker Prize for his novel “Flesh.”
Finlandia ha pasado décadas excavando cuevas en su lecho rocoso. Ahora, mientras Rusia se muestra amenazante, los finlandeses nerviosos quieren saber: “¿Dónde está mi refugio?”.
To imagine the cost of an “America First” policy, walk through World War II cemeteries in Europe.