NEWS The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday handed Google a big victory in its ongoing battle with regulators, finding that the U.S. Internet giant does not violate antitrust or anti-competition statutes in the way it structures its Web searches. Edward Wyatt reports from Washington.
Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab news giant, has long tried to convince Americans that it is a legitimate news organization, not a parrot of Middle Eastern propaganda or something more sinister. With its deal to take over Current TV, the low-rated cable channel that was founded by Al Gore, it has just bought itself 40 million more chances to make its case. Brian Stelter reports from New York.
Rape, murder and other charges were filed on Th ursday against five men suspected of carrying out the gang rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student who later died of her injuries, in a case that has prompted outrage and protests across India. Gardiner Harris reports from New Delhi.
The Kremlin announced Thursday that President Vladimir V. Putin had signed a decree granting Russian citizenship to Gérard Depardieu, the French actor who has been feuding publicly with French officials over the country's high tax rates on the wealthy. David M. Herszenhorn reports from Moscow.
Community organizations in China are slowly facing less resistance from government officials as they offer services to H.I.V.-infected people, many of them gay, a population that is often st igmatized. Dan Levin reports from Guangzhou, China.
As much as Americans, the Swiss love their guns, seeing them as integral to their national traditions of self-reliance, independence and international neutrality. Those views are unlikely to change soon, even after a mentally imbalanced man shot and killed three women and wounded two men in the southern Swiss village of Daillon on Wednesday evening. Steven Erlanger reports from Paris.
ARTS The actress Emmanuelle Riva, a symbol of the French New Wave and now an octogenarian, wasn't giving much thought to success or even finding a lead role in a film after her last one some 20 years ago. But when the Austrian director Michael Haneke, whose work she h ad long admired, offered her a starring part in “Amour,†a poignant tale of love and death set in a book-filled Paris apartment, she said yes instantly. Maïa de la Baume reports from Paris.
SPORTS The Newcastle striker Demba Ba's career has taken him from France to Belgium to Germany to England, and now it seems he will head to Chelsea, even if his new coach won't say so. Rob Hughes on soccer.
