NEWS A giant tornado, a mile wide or more, killed at least 91 people, 20 of them children, as it tore across parts of Oklahoma City and its suburbs Monday afternoon, flattening homes, flinging cars through the air and crushing at least two schools. Nick Oxford and Michael Schwirtz report.
Lebanon reeled Monday from the twin realizations that Hezbollah, the nation's most powerful military and political organization, was plunging deeper into the war in Syria, which the country has tried to stay out of, and that the group was taking unaccustomed losses. Anne Barnard reports from Lebanon.
Throughout her rise to power and as Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel has kept her personal life strictly private. But every four years, the election cycle cracks the door open a bit, and Ms. Merkel can be found telling tales of hunting for goods in the sparsely stocked stores of Communist East Germany, where she grew up, or mixing cherry juice with vodka as a barmaid at university parties. Melissa Eddy reports from Berlin.
The Five Star Movement of Beppe Grillo, the comedian turned political insurrectionist, won municipal elections a year ago in Parma. The movement went on to win 25 percent of the vote in national elections in February, making it the most potent threat to Italy's traditional political parties in years. As the party accumulates power, Parma is now being scrutinized as a test of what it would do if given still more authority. Elisabetta Povoledo reports.
Guatemala's highest court on Monday threw out the genocide conviction and prison sentence of the former dictator Gen. EfraÃn RÃos Montt. Elisabeth Malkin reports.
The Royal Horticultural Society‘s decision to allow garden gnomes - creatures commonly associated with the landscapes of the unrich, the unfamous and the untasteful - at the Chelsea Flower Show this year elicited a variety of responses. Sarah Lyall reports from London.
BUSINESS Yahoo, the faded Web pioneer, said Monday that it would buy the popular blogging service Tumblr for about $1.1 billion in cash, a signal that the company plans to reposition itself as the technology industry makes a headlong rush into social media. Michael J. de la Merced, Nick Bilton and Nicole Perlroth report.Â
Even as Apple became the nation's most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and went beyond anything most experts had ever seen, Congressional investigators disclosed on Monday. Nelson D. Schwartz and Charles Duhigg report.
ARTS Arnaud Desplechin, whose first appearance at the Cannes festival was in 1991, is competing this year with a movie that has deep French and American roots. Shot in English, “Jimmy P., Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian†is based on a book by Georges Devereux, an early French psychotherapist, about an American Indian veteran of World War II. Joan Dupont reports from Cannes, France.
SPORTS More than a week after the death of British sailor Andrew Simpson in a training accident, none of the four America's Cup teams have withdrawn from the competition, which is still scheduled to begin in early July in San Francisco. But the teams have made significant proposals for change. Christopher Clarey reports.
