President Obama added a couple of firsts to his list of achievements when he became the first sitting president to visit Myanmar and, later, Cuba. He will add another at the end of this month when he visits Hiroshima in conjunction with the Group of 7 leaders meeting in Japan.
Scientists say the near-destruction of Fort McMurray last week by a wildfire is the latest indication that the vital boreal forest is at risk from climate change.
That’s the average amount of time, the company said, that users spend each day on its Facebook, Instagram and Messenger platforms (and that’s not counting the popular messaging app WhatsApp).
Since 2010, Yu Kai has followed the ritual every year: When a new Apple iPhone comes out, he gets rid of his old one and heads to a store in Beijing to buy the latest model.
Cruise ships regularly disgorge thousands of passengers to visit attractions beyond the docks, but in the case of Salerno, this ancient and gracious Italian city of 133,000 people south of Naples, the first must-see site may soon become the maritime terminal itself, created by the architect Zaha Hadid and inaugurated Monday.
For years, there has been a limit to the success of American technology companies in China. Capture too much market share or wield too much influence, and Beijing will push back.
The director of the F.B.I. suggested Thursday that his agency paid at least $1.3 million to an undisclosed group to help hack into the encrypted iPhone used by an attacker in the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif.
White flowers fill the design gallery, with commemorative portraits placed amid undulating furniture of burnished polyurethane and marble.
Life expectancy declined slightly for white Americans in 2014, according to new federal data, a troubling sign that distress among younger and middle-age whites who are dying at ever-higher rates from drug overdoses is lowering average life spans for the white population as a whole.
The encryption debate has continued with new hearings, proposed legislation and other cases that involve locked iPhones and law enforcement demands that the devices be opened to aid investigations.
Intel, the world’s largest maker of semiconductors, said on Tuesday that it was laying off 12,000 people, about 11 percent of its work force, as it continues to reel from a long downturn in global demand for personal computers.
LinkedIn, the professional social networking company, has doled out increasingly large amounts of stock to pay its workers.
The first to be confirmed in the country since the infection began to spread there late last year.
Agents had been intercepting phone calls and emails belonging to members of an animal welfare group that was believed to be sabotaging operations of a company that was using animals to test drugs.
There was now enough evidence to definitively say that the Zika virus could cause unusually small heads and brain damage in infants born to infected mothers.
Where “Batman v Superman” weighs a desperate ton, “Deadpool” mocks that weight.
The clinic explained what went wrong: a common yeast infection.
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