NEWS Tumbling stock, bond and commodity prices around the world are demonstrating just how reliant the global economy has become on the monetary policies of the Federal Reserve. Nathaniel Popper reports.
The mass protests thundering across Brazil have swept up an impassioned array of grievances - costly stadiums, corrupt politicians, high taxes and shoddy schools - and spread to more than 100 cities on Thursday night, the most yet, with increasing ferocity. Simon Romero and William Neuman report from São Paulo.
Over the past year, images of rampaging Burmese Buddhists carrying swords and the vit uperative sermons of monks like Ashin Wirathu have underlined the rise of extreme Buddhism in Myanmar - and revealed a darker side of the country's greater freedoms after decades of military rule. Buddhist lynch mobs have killed more than 200 Muslims and forced more than 150,000 people, mostly Muslims, from their homes. Thomas Fuller reports from Taunggyi, Myanmar.
As the one-year anniversary of Mohamed Morsi's inauguration as Egypt's first freely elected president approaches, he faces widespread discontent from a swath of society and stinging grass-roots campaigns that have undermined his ability to wield power and address the country's most pressing problems. Ben Hubbard and Mayy El Sheikh report from Cairo.
In the latest release of documents supplied by Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor believed to be hiding in Hong Kong, The Guardian published two documents setting out the detailed rules governing the agency's intercepts. Dated 2009 and signed by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., they advise N.S.A. eavesdroppers on how to judge whether a target is a foreigner overseas, and therefore fair game, and what to do when they pick up Americans at home or abroad. Scott Shane reports from Washington.
The newly appointed prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, Rami Hamdallah, submitted his resignation on Thursday after only two we eks in office, a signal of continuing internal political disarray amid the already complicated American efforts to restart the peace process with Israel. Isabel Kershner reports from Jerusalem.
Foreign investors in Russia, wary of endemic corruption and an expanding government role in the economy, are hanging back, depriving the country's economy of essential capital. David M. Herszenhorn and Andrew E. Kramer report from St. Petersburg.
ARTS In a spectacular market turnaround, Sotheby's sale of Impressionist and modern art on W ednesday evening was as smoothly successful as Christie's session a day earlier was tough. Souren Melikian reports from London.
SPORTS The Czech hockey great Jaromir Jagr, playing for the Boston Bruins, is pursuing his third Stanley Cup title and first in more than 20 years - and Czechs are staying up late to watch. Brian Pinelli reports from Prague.
LeBron James of the Miami Heat scored 37 points and added a second straight N.B.A. title to his two Olympic gold medals while denying the Spurs' Tim Duncan his fifth title. Howard Beck reports from Miami.
