Aleppo, Syria's largest city and the bloodied stage for a battle now running into its sixth month, is slipping into disaster. C.J. Chivers reports from Aleppo, Syria.
Gunmen shot dead five female health workers who were immunizing children against polio on Tuesday, causing the Pakistani government to suspend vaccinations in two cities and dealing a fresh setback to an eradication campaign dogged by Taliban resistance in a country that is one of the disease's last global strongholds. Declan Walsh reports from Islamabad and Donald G. McNeil Jr. from New York.
After losing a battle to stop the passage of a contentious birth control law, Roman Catholic Church officials on Tuesday dug in and instructed their millions of followers to campaign against the measure in communities, schools and homes. Floyd Whaley reports from Manila.
NEWS The gilded roofs of Buddhist temples are as much a part of Thailand's landscape as rice paddies and palm trees. The temples were once the heart of village life, serving as meeting places, guesthouses and community centers. But many have become little more than ornaments of the past, marginalized by a shortage of monks and an increasingly secular society. Thomas Fuller reports from Baan Pa Chi, Thailand.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague said Tuesday that it found testimony against a former rebel leader “too contradictory and too hazy†to convict him of a gruesome 2003 attack on a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo in which some 200 people were hacked to death and female survivors were raped and held in camps as sex slaves. Marlise Simons reports.
Samsung said on Tuesday that it had dropped its request for a ban on sales of certain Apple phones and tablet computers in Europe, a sharp tactical turn in a patent war that the companies have been fighting on multiple fronts around the world. Eric Pfanner reports.
Cerberus, the private equity giant, will sell its investment in the gunmaker Freedom Group after a rifle from the company's Bushmaster brand was used by the gunman in the school shootings in Connecticut. Peter Lattman reports.
SPORTS On Monday, the largest group of supporters of the Russian champion Zenit St. Petersburg posted a call on its Web site for the team to be exclusively white and heterosexual. Rob Hughes reports.
ARTS Covent Garden skimps in its production of Meyerbeer's “Robert Le Diable,†which historically has wowed audiences as a grand production and which Chopin called a “m asterpiece.†George Loomis reviews from London.
