NEWS After the deadly building collapse in Bangladesh, Western retails have begun seeking new production locations with greater urgency. It's not an easy task - complex manufacturing needs already shrink the pool of potential locations. Keith Bradsher reports from Semarang, Indonesia.
Scientists have finally succeeded in using cloning to create human embryonic stem cells, a step toward developing replacement tissue to treat diseases but one that might also hasten the day when it will be possible to create cloned babies. Andrew Pollack reports.
E-mails released by the White House on Wednesday revealed a fierce internal jostling over the government's official talking points after last September's attack in Benghazi, Libya - not only between the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency, but at the highest levels of the C.I.A. Mark Landler, Eric Schmitt and Michael D. Shear report from Washington.
Struggling to contain a smoldering Islamist insurgency, the president of Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, has ordered in more troops and granted the military more powers to arrest, more authority to seize “any building or structure†and more leeway in “any area of terrorist operation.†Adam Nossiter reports from Dakar, Senegal.
The governing African National Congress in South Africa, which Nelson Mandela led for decades, is accused of using him as a prop to remind voters of the party's noble roots at a time when it has come to be seen as a collection of corrupt, self-serving elites. Lydia Polgreen reports from Johannesburg.
Palestinians in Gaza who crave KFC meals must order from across the border in Egypt, and the food-delivery odyssey involves two taxis, an international checkpoint and a smuggling tunnel. Fares Akram reports from Gaza City.
On Wednesday, the European Commission ramped up its inquiry into the potential manipulation of oil and biofuel prices, as investigators continued to question BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Statoil about their trading activities, according to people with knowledge of the meetings. Stanley Reed reports.
ARTS At age 97, the Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair is having her first major museum retrospective, at the Tate Modern in London. Nina Siegal reviews.
Analysts will have a tough job working out a pattern for Sotheby's Tuesday evening auction in which 53 works of contemporary art sold for more than $293 million. Souren Melikian reports from New York.
Buoyed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's decision this month to return two stolen statues, Cambodia is asking other museums to examine any Khmer antiquities they acquired after 1970, when a 20-year period of civil war and genocide gave thieves free range to loot the country's ancient temples. Tom Mashberg reports.
SPORTS England begins a home season that will have a decidedly Down Under accent when it starts the first of two five-day test matches against New Zealand on Thursday at Lord's in London. Huw Richards reports.
