New York Times

At 4-foot-10, he won three consecutive Olympic gold medals in weight lifting, emerging as a national hero in Turkey.

Mr. Mnangagwa’s ascension to the post long held by Robert Mugabe will cap a military-led campaign that his allies have tried to coat with a veneer of legality.

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To some, the posts directed at sports figures, many of them black, suggest that the president is trying to send a message of solidarity to many supporters.

Young shoppers influenced by videos and social media are spending their money on eye shadow and lipstick, and brands like Ulta and Sephora are thriving.

Small companies, which have increasingly turned to the internet, worry that a pay-for-play system online could price them out of doing business.

It’s the one holiday that truly invites all comers.

The long-anticipated designation will open the door to sanctions against the country’s military commanders and intensify pressure on its civilian leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Critics of Venezuela’s government say the arrests of the six executives are a reflection of the country’s increasingly ruthless politics.

Facebook said it was planning to roll out a new tool so you can figure out whether the page or account you followed or liked was run by Russian agents.

Except for Amazon, most major retailers have scaled back plans for hiring temporary employees during the year’s biggest shopping season, and Walmart is adding almost none.

The F.C.C. has overplayed its legal hand.

After 22 years, Ratko Mladic was found guilty of genocide. Why did it take so long? And what about his fellow perpetrators?

Ratko Mladic received a life sentence for his role in one of the worst atrocities in 20th-century Europe. But nationalist passions are once again on the rise.

The quarter’s quirky status made it a boomtown, but a planned road threatens todrive people out of their homes.

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In the latest movie from the Italian director Luca Guadagnino (“I Am Love”), Armie Hammer plays a visiting student who falls for his host’s teenage son.

“No extra charge for the cat pee!” said an organizer. But, yes, pricing was a challenge: How to put a monetary value on provenance this rich?

New musicals on London’s stages include a merciless and compassionate “Follies,” a revitalized “Young Frankenstein” and a timely saga of an aspiring drag queen.

Elements that foreshadowed steep losses for Democrats eight years ago are in place for Republicans today.