Sarah Lyall The New York Times

It was mortifying enough when last week's Republican debate introduced the question of whether it was appropriate for one presidential candidate to accuse another of wetting his pants. But the final straw for Gary Goyette and Andrea Todd, who were watching at home in Sacramento, California, with their 10-year-old son, was Donald J. Trump's jarring,...

The 'soccer vs football' debate has been quite furious over the span of a century with many questioning Americans and why they stick to referring to the sport as the former.

While the world's athletes limber up at the Olympic Park, Londoners are practicing some of their own favorite sports: complaining, expecting the worst and cursing the authorities.

Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal: It was a classic tabloid scoop: a young woman's account of a two-year affair with the actor Ralph Fiennes, spiced up with racy details of what he liked to do and how he liked to do it. Three newspapers - The Sunday Mirror, The Mail on Sunday and News of the World - carried their versions of the tale on February...

It was riveting theater, a newly emboldened parliamentary committee facing off against the 80-year-old Rupert Murdoch, the world's most powerful media mogul, in a series of exchanges designed to get to the bottom of the phone hacking scandal that has engulfed not just Mr. Murdoch's News Corporation, but also Britain's political and law-enforcement ...

The phone hacking scandal in Britain brought down another high-profile figure on Monday when John Yates, the assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London and the country's most senior counter-terrorism officer, resigned his post. His departure came a day after the country's top police officer quit and Rebekah Brooks, the former chief...

Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal:Political pressure is bearing down on Rebekah Brooks, a top executive of the News Corporation in Britain, following allegations that one of the company's newspapers hacked the cellphone of a 13-year-old girl who was abducted and murdered in 2002, when Ms. Brooks was its editor.

Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal: It was a classic tabloid scoop: a young woman's account of a two-year affair with the actor Ralph Fiennes, spiced up with racy details of what he liked to do and how he liked to do it. Three newspapers - The Sunday Mirror, The Mail on Sunday and News of the World - carried their versions of the tale on February...

Huddled together Thursday morning with hundreds of displaced passengers in a large semiheated tent outside Terminal 1 at Heathrow Airport, Dennis and Bonnie Barlow of Virginia were reviewing the high points of their vacation so far. First, they cruised the Mediterranean on the Brilliance of the Seas, the ship, now notorious, whose battle with hurri...

Imprisoned in China  and with close family members forbidden to leave the country, the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo  was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, his absence represented at the prize ceremony here on Friday by an empty chair. (Read: Who is Liu Xiaobo?)In Beijing, the Chinese authorities, who have been incensed by the choic...

With an empty chair on the podium, Norway's Nobel Committee braved furious Chinese protests on Friday, preparing to honor the jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in his absence, without handing over its coveted, golden peace medal to a named winner for the first time in over 70 years. Around a third of the 64 invited countries with embassies in Osl...

It was mortifying enough when last week's Republican debate introduced the question of whether it was appropriate for one presidential candidate to accuse another of wetting his pants. But the final straw for Gary Goyette and Andrea Todd, who were watching at home in Sacramento, California, with their 10-year-old son, was Donald J. Trump's jarring,...

The 'soccer vs football' debate has been quite furious over the span of a century with many questioning Americans and why they stick to referring to the sport as the former.

While the world's athletes limber up at the Olympic Park, Londoners are practicing some of their own favorite sports: complaining, expecting the worst and cursing the authorities.

Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal: It was a classic tabloid scoop: a young woman's account of a two-year affair with the actor Ralph Fiennes, spiced up with racy details of what he liked to do and how he liked to do it. Three newspapers - The Sunday Mirror, The Mail on Sunday and News of the World - carried their versions of the tale on February...

It was riveting theater, a newly emboldened parliamentary committee facing off against the 80-year-old Rupert Murdoch, the world's most powerful media mogul, in a series of exchanges designed to get to the bottom of the phone hacking scandal that has engulfed not just Mr. Murdoch's News Corporation, but also Britain's political and law-enforcement ...

The phone hacking scandal in Britain brought down another high-profile figure on Monday when John Yates, the assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London and the country's most senior counter-terrorism officer, resigned his post. His departure came a day after the country's top police officer quit and Rebekah Brooks, the former chief...

Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal:Political pressure is bearing down on Rebekah Brooks, a top executive of the News Corporation in Britain, following allegations that one of the company's newspapers hacked the cellphone of a 13-year-old girl who was abducted and murdered in 2002, when Ms. Brooks was its editor.

Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal: It was a classic tabloid scoop: a young woman's account of a two-year affair with the actor Ralph Fiennes, spiced up with racy details of what he liked to do and how he liked to do it. Three newspapers - The Sunday Mirror, The Mail on Sunday and News of the World - carried their versions of the tale on February...

Huddled together Thursday morning with hundreds of displaced passengers in a large semiheated tent outside Terminal 1 at Heathrow Airport, Dennis and Bonnie Barlow of Virginia were reviewing the high points of their vacation so far. First, they cruised the Mediterranean on the Brilliance of the Seas, the ship, now notorious, whose battle with hurri...

Imprisoned in China  and with close family members forbidden to leave the country, the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo  was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, his absence represented at the prize ceremony here on Friday by an empty chair. (Read: Who is Liu Xiaobo?)In Beijing, the Chinese authorities, who have been incensed by the choic...

With an empty chair on the podium, Norway's Nobel Committee braved furious Chinese protests on Friday, preparing to honor the jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in his absence, without handing over its coveted, golden peace medal to a named winner for the first time in over 70 years. Around a third of the 64 invited countries with embassies in Osl...