NEWS With the passage of a bill that does little to address the country's long-term debt issues, military and diplomatic experts wonder whether the United States is at risk of squandering its global influence, David E. Sanger reports from Washington.
Google's agreement with American authorities about antitrust laws is unlikely to sway European regulators, who are pursuing assertions that the company rigs results to favor its own businesses, David Jolly reports from Paris.
Interviews with a 22-year-old Afghan man who opened fire on Americans reveal the rage that officials worry may disrupt the training mission at the core of the United States' withdrawal plan, Matthew Rosenberg reports from Kabul, Afghanistan.
The tightening of controls at North Korea's border with China has led to a steep decline in the number of North Koreans defecting to South Korea in 2012, Choe Sang-Hun reports from Seoul.
José Mujica, a former guerrilla who took office as president of Uruguay in 2010, shuns opulence, donates most of his salary and lives modestly, as he says a leader of a proper democracy should, Simon Romero reports from Montevideo, Uruguay.
SPORTS Lance Armstrong, who this fall was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, has told associates he may admit to doping in his cycling career, Juliet Macur reports from New York.
ARTS Ursula Meier, director of “Sister,†Switzerland's foreign-language Oscar entry, explains why she chose to work with the same child actor, Kacey Mottet Klein, for both her films, Larry Rohter reports from New York.
