The gathering of the global elite is set to serve as an all-hands effort to de-escalate tensions between President Trump and America’s allies over his insistence on acquiring Greenland.
A train crash in the Catalonia region of Spain killed one person and injured dozens more, officials said. It was the country’s second deadly rail accident this week.
For roughly one hour 45 minutes, President Trump meandered through his accomplishments and grievances, attacked perceived enemies and threatened allies.
Train service in the Catalonia region will be suspended until it is safe to resume rail traffic, the local operator said.
Las autoridades dijeron que encontraron una parte de un tren de la que no se había informado antes. Los expertos indicaron que el hallazgo podría ayudar a esclarecer la causa de la catástrofe, que ha cobrado 42 vidas.
Prime Minister Mark Carney got a standing ovation in Davos for starkly describing the end of Pax Americana. He is looking for new allies to help his country survive it.
President Trump’s bellicose demands about Greenland and participation in his “board of peace” are deepening worries about the fate of the trans-Atlantic alliance.
At the World Economic Forum, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada took a stand against President Trump’s desire for the United States to own Greenland, and called on medium-size countries to stand up to larger powers.
While the party remains split as President Trump presses to “take” Greenland, some in his party are publicly embracing his reasoning for wanting to control the territory.
Officials said they had located a previously unreported train undercarriage near the site of a deadly train crash in Spain. Experts said the finding could help investigators.
“We are reaching a time of instability and imbalances,” the French president said in remarks at the World Economic Forum, urging more cooperation among nations.
The islands, which Britain has agreed to hand over to Mauritius, are home to a strategically important U.S.-British military base.
El martes, las autoridades se esforzaban por identificar a los fallecidos en la colisión ocurrida cerca de la ciudad de Córdoba, en la que murieron al menos 41 personas.
For years, Emmanuel Macron has used friendship to temper President Trump’s most impulsive moves. It’s unclear whether that can still work.
President Trump threatened tariffs on European nations that sent military personnel to Greenland last week. Some have already gone home, but Denmark is now sending about 100 more.
One of the largest solar radiation storms in decades produced an aurora borealis that illuminated rare hues like red and purple over Britain and parts of continental Europe.
Frente a las presiones de EE. UU. sobre Groenlandia, la Unión Europea se plantea lo que antes era impensable: ¿su alianza de 80 años está condenada?
The Spanish authorities have struggled to recognize the victims of a train crash on Sunday that killed dozens of people. One local official said the impact was so severe that bodies had been found hundreds of meters from the accident.
The World Economic Forum is now dominated by global technology companies whose interests shunt aside most others.
As European leaders try to engage with the American president over Greenland and the future of Ukraine, he is mocking them as weak.
Greenland, tariffs and wobbling markets are the talk of the town at the World Economic Forum ahead of the president’s arrival on Wednesday.
El número de multimillonarios se ha disparado en el mundo, pero a menudo pagan impuestos a tasas muy inferiores a la media. Además: tragedia ferroviaria en España y adiós a Valentino.
The government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer approved plans for a massive new Chinese Embassy near Tower Bridge, disappointing critics who fear it will enable spying.
Officials on Tuesday were struggling to identify bodies from the crash near the southern city of Córdoba, which killed at least 41 people.
Plus, the struggle to finish a major Olympic arena.
President Trump’s criticism reversed his administration’s previous support for the deal, in which Britain relinquished control of the Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius.
President Trump posted private messages from France’s president and repeated his desire to take over Greenland in an overnight social media storm.
Ukrainian authorities say that the repeated attacks on energy infrastructure are an attempt to force the country into submission.
With cameras rolling, President Trump met with more than 40 international leaders in his first year back in office.
The annual conference for the elite, like everything else, is changing.
Semyon Bychkov will soon take up the most prestigious post of his long, varied career. Collaborating with Ralph Fiennes on “Eugene Onegin,” he gives a taste of things to come.
Two trains collided on Sunday in southern Spain, killing at least 40 people. Here is what happened.
In a text message exchange with the Norwegian prime minister, President Trump linked his Nobel Peace Prize snub to his plans to acquire Greenland. As he doubled down on his threats, European leaders met at the World Economic Forum.
En el intercambio del domingo, el líder noruego trató de “frenar la escalada” del creciente conflicto sobre Groenlandia y la última amenaza arancelaria de Trump.
The number of billionaires has exploded, yet they often pay taxes at rates well below average.
The victims of Spain’s deadliest rail crash in more than a decade included a police officer, journalists and a family returning from a musical.
A severe solar storm could produce a visible show from Alabama to Northern California.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s effort to force the measure through Parliament opened up his government to a vote of no confidence.
As President Trump tries to coerce European leaders over Greenland, they are pondering the unthinkable: Is an 80-year-old alliance doomed?
Las fotografías muestran una maraña de metal, cables y cristales rotos en el lugar del accidente.
In the exchange on Sunday, Norway’s leader sought to “de-escalate” the growing conflict over Greenland and Mr. Trump’s latest tariff threat.
A train crash in southern Spain involving two trains killed dozens on Sunday. The cause of the crash, the deadliest in Spain since 2013, was still being investigated on Monday.
En un mensaje de texto, el presidente Trump dijo al primer ministro de Noruega que ya no se sentía obligado a “pensar puramente en la paz” y que el mundo no estaría seguro hasta que EE. UU. controlara la isla.
A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say.
Un tren de alta velocidad se salió de la vía y chocó contra otro la noche del domingo en el sur de España, lo que ocasionó la muerte de al menos 39 personas.
Some residents of Greenland are hatching plans to flee by boat, while others are committed to remaining as President Trump demands a deal to buy the autonomous territory of Denmark.
In a text, President Trump told Norway’s prime minister that he no longer felt obliged to “think purely of Peace” and that the U.S. needed the island for global security.
Photographs show a tangled mess of metal, wires and broken glass at the scene of the crash, which killed at least 39 people.
The British prime minister said his country “must stand up for its values” after President Trump threatened a new tariff war over acquiring the island.
A year after the dictator fell, Syrians are returning to a country with no clear plan for rebuilding.
The world’s largest asset manager has been enlisted to help build Ukraine’s recovery plan. Some fear it is part of a Trump administration effort to steer the effort toward American business interests.
The closures were announced after a high-speed train derailed and smashed into another high-speed train, killing at least 39 people and injuring dozens.
A trial is set to begin on Monday in Harry’s case accusing Associated Newspapers of phone hacking and other unlawful activities. Other claimants include Elton John and Liz Hurley.
The traditional rhetoric of the World Economic Forum centered on global integration, climate change and international cooperation. Not anymore.
The collision, caused by the derailment of one of the trains, was the deadliest in Spain since at least 2013.
La colisión sucedió tras descarrilar los vagones traseros de un tren en el sur del país.
Emergency responders worked to evacuate survivors from the wreckage of a deadly crash between two high-speed trains that derailed in Adamuz, Spain, on Sunday.
European Union ambassadors held an emergency meeting on Sunday, and leaders from across the 27-nation bloc will meet in Brussels later this week.
A high-speed train smashed into another train after derailing in the southern province of Córdoba, officials said. The cause of the accident was not immediately clear.
A composer and pianist as well, he was a prolific recording artist who integrated jazz, classical and world music traditions in a career that spanned seven decades.
Trump threatened heavy tariffs on countries standing between him and Greenland. E.U. leaders are scrambling for a response.
Los países europeos dependen de Estados Unidos para la seguridad de la OTAN, lo que limita sus opciones. Su respuesta más contundente podrían ser represalias con su propia “bazuca” comercial.
The American president’s vow to get Greenland, the semiautonomous Danish territory, has thrown the tiny, pro-American Nordic nation into crisis.
Europe’s dependence on the United States for NATO security limits its options. Its strongest response could be retaliating with its own trade “bazooka.”
Skiers have also died from avalanche-related accidents in the Swiss and French Alps over the past week.
The centuries-old trade is enjoying something of a revival, partly driven by rising energy costs. Today’s sweeps use new tools and technology.
A Jewish family that fled Iraq generations ago rented its home to France for use as an embassy, but Paris long ago stopped paying it rent, after Iraq stripped Jews of property.
The Norwegian drama collected six awards at the event, which was moved to January this year in hopes of increasing its visibility for Oscar voters.
Protests erupted in several Greenlandic cites and in Denmark as President Trump intensified his efforts to take control of the Arctic island.
Government troops drew closer to Raqqa, the largest city overseen by the Kurds, raising U.S. concerns about the renewal of a wider conflict in the region.
La mayor diáspora de venezolanos del mundo fuera de América vive en España. Muchos celebraron la captura de Nicolás Maduro y ahora se adaptan a la idea de que los aliados del régimen siguen a cargo.
The president escalated his drive to take charge of the Danish territory, targeting eight countries with tariffs.
The ultrarunner and mountaineer finds peace through doing unimaginably hard things.
Spain is home to the biggest collection of Venezuelan emigrants outside the Americas. Many cheered the capture of Nicolás Maduro, but are now adapting to the fact that his allies remain in charge.
Six years after the financial industry pledged to use trillions to fight climate change and reshape finance, its efforts have largely collapsed.
Current and former commanders, analysts and military bloggers are having a surprisingly open debate about whether drones have made Russia’s longstanding approach to battle obsolete.
Readers react to the unrest in Minnesota. Also: Parallels to the past; the Nobel Peace Prize medal; nuclear power; Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead.
El cantante dijo que las acusaciones eran “absolutamente falsas” en un comunicado emitido luego de que la fiscalía española abriera una investigación.
Russia has targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in past winters, but this year intensified its attacks as temperatures in Ukraine plunged well below freezing.
The singer called the accusations “completely false” in a statement released after Spanish prosecutors said they would investigate.
Jade Franks mines the awkwardness of social mobility in her one-woman show “Eat the Rich.”
The 24 former volunteers, including the refugee turned campaigner Sara Mardini, were prosecuted after helping migrants during the European refugee crisis nearly a decade ago.
Our reporter Jeffrey Gettleman is on the ground in Greenland, seeing how people have reacted to Trump’s desire to take it over. He and our senior writer Katrin Bennhold discuss what Greenland means to the United States, Denmark and Greenlanders.
Larry Fink, BlackRock’s chief executive, led an effort to elevate the World Economic Forum next week, the first without the event’s founder, Klaus Schwab.
At a meeting in Tokyo, Prime Ministers Giorgia Meloni of Italy and Sanae Takaichi of Japan bonded over being conservative women at the pinnacle of power.
This week’s properties are a designer’s four-bedroom house in Sète; an apartment in Montpellier’s historic center; and a country-styled villa also in Montpellier.
With less than a month until the Winter Games in northern Italy, builders have yet to complete a major arena.
A backlash over a rant against Ukrainian officials has raised questions about Eastern Europe’s welcome of Russian dissidents.
With no dragons and no warring dynasties, HBO’s “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is the first test of whether the “Thrones” formula works on a human scale.
A judge dropped the case against Ms. Ferragni, who had been embroiled in a scandal over sales of a limited edition Christmas cake marketed as supporting cancer treatment.
The leader of Britain’s Conservatives, Kemi Badenoch, said she had ousted Robert Jenrick for “plotting in secret” to defect from and damage the party.
Los intentos de la líder de la oposición venezolana de compartir su premio con el presidente de EE. UU. han hecho tambalear la fe de algunos noruegos en su emblemática herramienta de poder blando.
Bowing to pressure, the company said it would restrict X users from generating explicit images of real people in jurisdictions where such content is illegal.
A high-powered meeting in Washington on Wednesday ended in an impasse, leaving Greenlanders fearful of what comes next.
The Kremlin has tried for years to freeze Ukraine into submission. This winter, its attacks have been the most devastating ever.
The Venezuelan opposition leader’s attempts to share her award with the U.S. president have shaken some Norwegians’ faith in their signature soft-power tool.
I used to think Americans were different from Germans.
His naïve style landed him outside the firmament, but his painterly innocence was more seductive — and intentional — than many critics appreciated.
This detour-heavy film moves across time periods to follow girlhood mischief, desire and abuse on a German farm.
On Wednesday, Denmark and Greenland’s foreign ministers met with the Trump administration. President Trump urged the United States needs Greenland for national security purposes but both foreign officials argued Greenland is not up for sale.
In 1970, he founded London’s Young Vic, an adventurous “people’s theater” — the Who took the stage at one point — before shaking up the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
An independent report said Wednesday that the West Midlands Police overstated the threat posed by Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters before a match last year in Birmingham.
Workers will be able to use a variety of digital IDs to prove their right to work in Britain, the government said Wednesday, diluting a plan it announced last year.
The British government provided guaranteed electricity prices to a group of wind farm developers in what it says is an effort to bring down power costs for consumers.
The fate of the world’s largest island has outsize importance for billions of people on the planet, because as the climate warms, Greenland is losing ice. That has consequences.
Before a meeting on Wednesday with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Greenland’s prime minister said that his nation intended to remain part of Denmark.
The treaty that created NATO did not contemplate an attack by one ally on another. A seizure of Greenland by President Trump would test the endurance of the mutual-defense pact.
Mascha Schilinski’s movie “Sound of Falling,” which takes place over a century in a rural farmhouse, shows how trauma is transmitted through generations.
Top officials from the United States, Denmark and Greenland will meet at the White House for the first time since President Trump said he wanted to own Greenland.
Durante décadas, un archipiélago ártico llamado Svalbard ha sido un inusual refugio de cooperación internacional. Esos días se terminaron.
La fiscalía española investiga las denuncias de las mujeres, que trabajaron para el cantante en República Dominicana y las Bahamas.
The Canadian authorities have identified 10 people in connection with the theft of about $14.4 million in gold bars from Toronto Pearson International Airport in 2023.
Prosecutors said two former employees of Mr. Iglesias, a renowned Spanish singer, had accused him of abuse. His representatives did not respond to requests for comment.
Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, began her appeal trial aimed at overturning a ruling by a criminal court in 2025 that convicted her of embezzlement and barred her from running for public office for five years.
The city’s homicide rate is lower than that of New York, Paris or Toronto, contradicting a narrative promoted by President Trump and others on the populist right.
Ms. Le Pen, whose far-right party leads polls in France, was convicted last year of embezzlement. The outcome of her appeal, which started on Tuesday, will determine if she can run for president next year.
Denmark does not want to sell its territory. But for a real estate mogul turned president, the world’s largest island may be irresistible.
The defense comes after Jerome Powell pushed back on what he described as pressure by the Trump administration to cut interest rates in the United States.
Allowing the remnants of Maduro’s regime to retain authority, even temporarily, is a potentially catastrophic mistake.
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Man v Fat, una liga de fútbol fundada en el Reino Unido hace una década, se está expandiendo a los Estados Unidos, y ha traído a sus jugadores beneficios contra el exceso de peso y la soledad masculina.
The case was brought to the World Court by a country not directly affected by the alleged genocide of the Rohingya, a precedent for similar claims against other countries, including Israel.
El regulador británico Ofcom investiga al chatbot de Musk tras la difusión de imágenes ilegales.
La historia se convirtió en motivo de orgullo para Taft y sus padres por la forma en que ilustraba la absurda pseudociencia subyacente a la ideología racial nazi.
The unexpected discovery of a well-preserved and fortified villa in Margam Park in South Wales sheds new light on the Roman occupation there, an expert said.
Jacques Moretti has been placed in pretrial detention for at least three months. He and his wife, Jessica Moretti, are under investigation over possible negligence.
A British regulator said it had started a formal investigation into Mr. Musk’s chatbot over the spread of illegal images.
The European Commission allowed carmakers to volunteer limits on their imports from China instead of paying tariffs, an arrangement that could help Volkswagen.
A fragile democracy, the Weimar Republic, briefly took hold in Germany before the Nazis seized power. Now, Weimar’s collapse is seen as a warning.
America’s days of unipolar supremacy are past.
Reza Pahlavi, once the crown prince of Iran, says protesters there have been emboldened by President Trump suggesting that he could take military action.
His 1968 book, “Chariots of the Gods,” sold hundreds of thousands of copies, but one critic called it a “warped parody of reasoning.”
Man v Fat, a soccer league founded in Britain a decade ago, is expanding in the United States, bringing with it a self-deprecating approach to shedding pounds.
Pavel Talankin was a school events coordinator and videographer. When Russia overhauled the curriculum to make students into patriotic soldiers, he kept his camera rolling. The footage became an Oscar-nominated film.
Over the last decade, streetwear grew saturated and stagnant. Clint Ogbenna saw an opportunity.
Required lessons are heavy on militarism and pro-Russian, anti-Ukrainian propaganda. Some people make an arduous escape, partly to avoid the indoctrination.
For decades, an Arctic archipelago called Svalbard has served as a rare refuge of international cooperation. Those days are over.
The pontiff has increasingly asserted himself in the face of Trump’s aggressive words and deeds.
The recall affects passports issued between Dec. 23 and Jan. 6, Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said.
It started in a laboratory. No one could have predicted where it would end.
In a serious challenge to Iran’s authoritarian government, angry protests have spread from the markets and universities of major cities to the impoverished towns in the hinterland.
For the Russian leader, courting President Trump to secure a favorable resolution in Ukraine, and possibly more, is far more important.
European officials were stunned that President Trump restated his desire for Greenland after a yearlong effort to dissuade him, according to diplomats and others.
President Trump’s retaliation against top officials at the International Criminal Court has shut them out of American services and made even routine daily tasks a challenge.
The German automaker’s sales in the United States plunged last year, hit by tariffs and the end of tax credits for electric vehicles.
He was an official in the revolutionary government, then, after the country won independence from France, was imprisoned and eventually wrote from exile.
Prosecutors in Switzerland ordered Jacques Moretti to be detained after investigators questioned him and his wife, Jessica Moretti. Officials are looking into whether negligence played a role in last week’s deadly fire at their bar, Le Constellation.
Without her parents’ knowledge, her portrait was entered as a prank in a contest in 1935 to represent the ideal Aryan infant — and she won.