NEWS While the workings of the conclave are secret, Cardinal Bergoglio is said to have won the papacy in part because the Vatican-based cardinals protective of their bureaucracy snubbed the presumptive front-runner, and a favored candidate of reformers, Cardinal Angelo Scola. Daniel J. Wakin reports from Vatican City.
At a meeting in Brussels, European leaders insisted that only budget cuts and other financial stability measures would restore growth and create jobs. James Kanter and Andrew Higgins report from Brussels.
In a statement on a proposed United Nations declaration to condemn violence against women, the Mulim Brotherhood in Egypt issued a list of objections, which formally laid out its views on women. David Kirkpatrick reports from Cairo.
A battle for a stretch of northern road in Syria that government forces still risk using pits a conventional arsenal against fighters armed with faith as much as weapons. C. J. Chivers reports from Heesh, Syria.
Hundreds of angry farmers heckled and walked out on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese politician and Nobel laureate, during a visit on Thursday to villages in central Myanmar that might be displaced by a copper mine. Thomas Fuller reports from Yangon.
Hard as it may be to believe, the recent discovery of thousands of pig carcasses floating in a Shanghai river may represent a step forward in Chinese public health. David Barboza reports from Jiaxing, China.
European officials plan to vote on a proposal to sharply restrict the use of chemicals that have been implicated in the decline of global bee populations. David Jolly reports from Paris.
When North Kore blamed President Park Geun-hye’s “venomous swish of skirt†this week for tensions on the Korean Peninsula, it brought up an issue that had been mainly unremarked upon in South Korea: Would their leader’s gender color the latest confrontation between the Koreas Choe Sang-Hun reports from Seoul.
International creditors suspended their latest review of Greece’s economic overhaul program, demanding firmer details on cost cuts. Liz Alderman reports from Athens.
Boeing executives said on Friday that they expected commercial flights of the company’s troubled new Dreamliner jet to resume within w! eeks and ! that the company was fully confident that it had eliminated all risk of fire or smoke from its batteries, defending its use of the volatile lithium-ion technology. Hiroko Tabuchi reports from Tokyo.
ARTS BalletBoyzâ€"a dance company that has won a young audience with irreverent, ordinary-guy humor; a flair for combining risk-taking commissions with entertainment; and prefacing performances with short films that gave choreographers and dancers a chance to speak of the creative process, often amusinglyâ€"is presenting new works by Liam Scarlett and Russell Maliphant. Roslyn Sulcas reviews from London.
SPORTS When the uarterfinal draw for the Champions League is held Friday, there will be a Turkish club, an Italian club, some Spanish clubs â€" but no English clubs. Rob Hughes on soccer.
