NEWS Levels of deadly pollutants up to 40 times the recommended exposure limit in Beijing and other cities have struck fear into parents and led them to take steps that are radically altering the nature of urban life for their children. Edward Wong reports from Beijing.
On Tuesday afternoon, France is expected to become the 14th country to legalize marriage for all couples, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. The final vote in the legislature is expected to be quick, but there has been an intensification of opposition to the bill in the past few weeks, as Mr. Hollande’s critics have used demonstrations against it as a way of attacking the president himself. Steven Erlanger and Scott Sayare report from Paris.
The United States and China held their highest-level military talks in nearly two years on Monday, with a senior Chinese general pledging to work with the United States on cybersecurity because the consequences of a major cyberattack “may be as serious as a nuclear bomb.†Jane Perlez reports from Beijing.
As President Giorgio Napolitano of Italy was sworn in for a second term on Monday, he used his inaugural address to scold Italy’s bickering political parties for creating the impasse that led to his re-election. Elisabetta Povoledo reports from Rome.
Lying wounded in a hospital bed, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings admitted on Sunday to playing a role in the attacks, said law enforcement officials, and on Monday he was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction that resulted in three deaths and more than 170 injuries. Katharine Q. Seelye reports from Boston, Michael S. Schmidt from Washington and William K. Rashbaum from New York.
In the highest-profile criminal trial of a politician in Greece in more than two decades, a former defense minister, Akis Tsochatzopoulos, appeared in court on Monday charged with setting up a complex money-laundering network to cover the trail of millions of dollars in bribes he is accused of pocketing from government weapons purchases. Niki Kitsantonis reports from Athens.
A German privacy regulator fined Google €145,000 on Monday for the systematic, illegal collection of personal data while it was creating the Street View mapping service, and called on European lawmakers to significantly raise fines for violations of data protection laws. Kevin J. O’Brien reports from Berlin.
Teams of Boeing engineers and technicians began fanning out across the globe Monday to modify the battery systems of 50 of the company’s 787 Dreamliner jets and get the grounded fleet back in the air. Nicola Clark reports.
Uli Hoeness, a former soccer champion who acknowledged keeping a secret bank account to evade taxes, has turned himself in to prosecutors. Nicholas Kulish reports from Berlin.
ARTS Richie Havens, who marshaled a craggy voice, a percussive guitar and a soulful sensibility to play his way into musical immortality at Woodstock in 1969, improvising the song “Freedom†on the fly, died on Monday. He was 72. Douglas Martin’s obituary.
Alfredo Guevara Valdés, a Marxist intellectual and ally of Fidel Castro who presided over Cuba’s powerful state-financed film industry and its many acclaimed movies for much of the Castro era, died on Friday. He was 87. Victoria Burnett reports from Havana.
SPORTS Generalizations like German power against Spanish flair can be forgotten. The makeup of any team that reaches this stage of Europe’s ultimate competition is far too cosmopolitan to be considered along narrow nationalistic lines. Rob Hughes writes from London.
