Flavio Grassi

For political, demographic and mathematical reasons, Tuesday’s primaries could reshape the Democratic race.

As the death toll from a devastating cyclone escalated to nearly 4,000, the foreign minister said that it could rise to 15,000.

In the failed Microsoft-Yahoo marriage it was Google that played the odd dual role of unwitting matchmaker and self-interested spoiler.

The largest Swiss bank said it expected to cut 5,500 jobs as it announced a first-quarter loss of about $10.9 billion.

An exhibition at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, tells the less known story of the renaissance of Holocaust survivors in Israel and their role in shaping the new state.

Regulators are asking whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will soon need saving themselves.

State gas taxes often add far more to the price of gas than the 18.4-cent federal excise tax.

Overshadowed by the economic achievements of their neighbors, all absolute monarchies, Kuwaitis are wondering whether democracy is living up to its promises.

A problem in the way patent judges are appointed at least arguably invalidates every decision of the patent court decided by a panel that included at least one judge appointed after March 2000.

It was the latest in a series of rare but increasingly ambitious protests against government-backed industrial projects on environmental and health grounds.

Iran said that it would not hold talks with the United States on Iraq while American forces were fighting Shiite militias in Sadr City.

Inspections are carried out around the world as officials try to soothe concerns at home.

Painful swelling of arms and legs can be prevented with monitoring and early treatment.

Lots of us think about Amy Spindler, the mind of Amy Spindler, and I’m glad people are again discovering her writing. She came to life, I think, in the latter part of her run as fashion critic of the NYT and then again when she became Style Editor of the Magazine. Amy was a good [...].

There will be no N.F.L.-style playoff system nor will there be a seeded “Plus One” model or any other changes to the format college football uses to determine a national champion.

Climatologists will create decade-long climate forecasts, just as meteorologists craft weeklong weather forecasts.

Forward Sean Avery was hospitalized after he suffered a lacerated spleen during a hit in Tuesday’s loss to the Penguins and will miss the rest of the season.

The Federal Reserve reduced short-term interest rates for the seventh time in seven months, the latest in a series of measures to stabilize financial markets.

Some Democratic party leaders and superdelegates said that the controversy over Senator Barack Obama’s former pastor has given them pause.

Authorities said they had “rescued” more than 100 children from factories in a manufacturing center.