WROCLAW, Poland — In Gdansk, psychologists have been called in to help the public. Such is the great shock following the murder on Jan. 13 — on live prime-time television with millions watching — of the city’s mayor, Pawel Adamowicz. The 27-year-old man accused of killing the mayor was released from prison a few months […]

This article is part of David Leonhardt’s newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it each weekday. I’m a great admirer of the so-called Trump resistance. Over the past two years, it has had two huge accomplishments: helping defeat Obamacare repeal and helping defeat the Republican House majority. But I also think it’s a […]

MILAN (Reuters) – Activist investor Elliott urged Telecom Italia’s (TLIT.MI) board to spin-off its fixed-line network, after Italy’s telecoms regulator gave an initial thumbs-down to a Vivendi plan to create a wholly-owned subsidiary instead. AGCOM said on Sunday that the proposal drawn up by former Chief Executive Amos Genish, appointed when French media group Vivendi […]

When Cheryl posted her #10yearchallenge photographs last Thursday, the response was exactly what one expected at that point in the week. By then, the so-called challenge was four days in, and posts and reactions had found a certain groove. Cheryl’s photos from 2009 and 2019 (actually 2018) were, respectively, a publicity shot from The X […]

That car bomb in Derry must be a wake-up call to all of us. We must cease taking the ongoing peace for granted and realise we all must work hard to keep the hard-won gains of the peace process. The device was described by police as “crude and unstable”. So, it’s no thanks to the […]

Like most people, I’m no great fan of hospitals. They are, like courtrooms and bankruptcy hearings, necessary institutions – but eminently better places to drop in as a visitor rather than overnight as a patient. So it was last week when I called on my old friend Jean, who’d suffered an unexpected burst appendix. Not […]

To the Editor: Re “The Joy of Being a Woman in Her 70s,” by Mary Pipher (Sunday Review, Jan. 13): Kudos to Ms. Pipher for writing about women in their 70s. However, I was disappointed that she did not mention the sadness that women feel when the mirror no longer recognizes the pretty young woman […]

The world’s oldest man has died at his home — a hot springs inn — in northern Japan at the age of 113. Masazo Nonaka died in the early hours of Sunday while sleeping at home in Ashoro on Japan’s northern main island of Hokkaido, his family said. He died peacefully from natural causes, according […]

Leo Varadkar is the first Irish Taoiseach to bet the country’s Gross Domestic Product on the rationality of the right wing of the Tory party. Because that’s what he is doing in hoping for the best from Theresa May’s withdrawal plans – while at the same time ensuring she has no hope of success by […]

WASHINGTON — After I’d been writing a column for a few years, a male boss gave me a T-shirt depicting the Furies swooping. He didn’t mean it as a compliment. The three sisters, the “infernal goddesses” of ancient mythology born from the blood shed by Uranus when he was castrated by his son, were known […]