An incorrect name was listed on a court document charging the suspect with murder, but legal experts said the mistake would not impede prosecution in the mass shooting.
Indonesian investigators described the sounds emanating from the cockpit as the flight crew fought to take control of a plane that seemed almost magnetically propelled toward earth.
Nearly a week after southern Africa was hit by one the worst natural disasters in decades, it was all rescue workers could do to try to reach the victims.
Dariga Nazarbayeva boosted her chance of following her father as president, but a messy divorce and the lurid death of her former husband might get in the way.
The move endangers the European Parliament’s most powerful political alliance — one that has shielded the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, as he has dismantled checks on his power.
Mr. Karadzic led a Serb-majority region that tried to break away from Bosnia, where tens of thousands of people were killed and more were displaced by ethnic cleansing.
At Senegal’s largest national park, poachers seem to outnumber the wildlife, and a highway runs through the middle. So rangers celebrate even small victories, like hints of a pachyderm’s presence.
By Dionne Searcey
PhotoCreditJames Whitlow Delano for The New York Times
The Japanese call them “juhyo,” or ice monsters, and armies of these abominable snowmen once spread across the country’s northern mountains. But they are at risk because of warming temperatures.
By Motoko Rich
PhotoCreditSergey Ponomarev for The New York Times
The Russian government celebrates the writer Ivan Turgenev even though it scorns many of his negative views of his homeland and his embrace of Western, liberal values.
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi wants to paint the ramshackle red brick buildings that fill Egypt’s cities and wants ordinary people to pay for it. Some question if the scheme is wise or even possible.
The Chinese authorities turned to a Massachusetts company and a prominent Yale researcher as they built an enormous system of surveillance and control.
Under a program China insisted was peaceful, Pakistan is cooperating on distinctly defense-related projects, including a secret plan to build new fighter jets.
By Maria Abi-Habib
PhotoCreditLucie Mikolaskova/Czech News Agency, via Associated Press
