SYDNEY — After nearly three years, the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 ended in futility and frustration Tuesday, as crews completed their deep-sea search of a desolate stretch of the Indian Ocean without finding a trace of the plane or the 239 ...

Turkish special forces officers at Police Headquarters in Istanbul on Tuesday. Credit Murad Sezer/Reuters. The Uzbek man who was taken into custody on Monday and is believed to be the gunman who carried out an attack at an upscale Istanbul nightclub, ...

ISTANBUL — A gunman suspected of killing 39 people during a New Year's attack on an Istanbul nightclub has been caught in a police operation, Turkish media reports said early Tuesday. The suspect was captured in a special operations police raid on a ...

ISTANBUL — A gunman suspected of killing 39 people during a New Year's attack on an Istanbul nightclub has been caught in a police operation, Turkish media reports said early Tuesday. The suspect was captured in a special operations police raid on a ...

A gunman opened fire in a crowded nightclub during an international musical festival in Playa Del Carmen on the Yucatán Peninsula. Five people were killed. By THE NEW YORK TIMES. Photo by Victor Ruiz/Reuters... Watch in Times Video ». embed.

Emergency crews near Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Monday after a cargo jet crashed on approach to the airport, killing dozens of people. Credit Igor Kovalenko/European Pressphoto Agency. HONG KONG — A Turkish cargo plane approaching the airport in ...

SEOUL, South Korea — In a departure from the leniency South Korean big businesses typically receive, prosecutors on Monday requested the arrest of the de facto head of Samsung Electronics, the country's most valuable company, in an influence-peddling ...

Jay Y. Lee, vice chairman of Samsung, in Seoul, South Korea, last week. A special prosecutor is seeking to arrest him on charges of bribing President Park Geun-hye. Credit Pool photo by Ahn Young-joon. SEOUL, South Korea — A special prosecutor ...

Days before his inauguration, President-elect Donald J. Trump is engaged in a high-profile feud with some of the country's most prominent African-American leaders, setting off anger in a constituency already wary of him after a contentious presidential ...

DAKAR, Senegal — Senegal is hosting Gambia's president-elect Adama Barrow until his Jan. 19 inauguration, as the small West African country's longtime leader refuses to step down peacefully despite mediation efforts and calls from regional and ...

House members left the Capitol after morning votes on Friday in Washington. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times. WASHINGTON — The House cleared the way on Friday for speedy action to repeal the Affordable Care Act, putting Congress on track to undo ...

James N. Mattis, the retired general and President-elect Donald J. Trump's nominee for defense secretary, arrived for his confirmation hearing in Washington on Thursday. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times. On the third day of confirmation ...

James N. Mattis, the retired general and President-elect Donald J. Trump's nominee for defense secretary, arrived for his confirmation hearing in Washington on Thursday. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times. On the third day of confirmation ...

The building in London housing Orbis Business Intelligence, a commercial intelligence firm started by a former British intelligence officer who collected an opposition research dossier on President-elect Donald J. Trump. Credit Yui Mok/Press ...

The building in London housing Orbis Business Intelligence, a commercial intelligence firm started by a former British intelligence officer who collected an opposition research dossier on President-elect Donald J. Trump. Credit Yui Mok/Press ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday in Trump Tower in Manhattan, where he met with President-elect Donald J. Trump. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times. A prominent anti-vaccine crusader said on Tuesday that President-elect Donald J. Trump had ...

James B. Comey, director of the F.B.I.; James R. Clapper Jr., director of national intelligence; and John O. Brennan, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, at a Senate Intelligence committee hearing on Tuesday. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times.

TEHRAN, Iran — Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a wily political survivor and multimillionaire mogul who remained among the ruling elite despite moderate views, died Sunday, state TV reported. He was 82. Iranian media reported ...

Sgt. Elor Azaria was found guilty over the deadly shooting of a Palestinian assailant in the West Bank city of Hebron last year, in a case that has divided opinion in Israel. By CAMILLA SCHICK on Publish Date January 4, 2017. Photo by Pool photo by ...

The 115th session of Congress opened on Tuesday amid controversy involving a Republican-led effort to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics. By REUTERS. Photo by Stephen Crowley/The New York Times. Watch in Times Video ». embed. WASHINGTON ...