Russia has produced innumerable chess grandmasters, and its president for life, Vladimir Putin, is no exception. Picture him brooding silently over the geopolitical chessboard as he planned his latest move — the weekend's swift, stunning, and unprovoked ...

In these recent days of international crisis, there's just one thing that all sides claim to agree on: Ukraine shouldn't be forced to choose between Europe and Russia, the two great powers that it is sandwiched between. Everybody has always known that forcing ...

Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP/Getty Images. President Vladimir Putin with figure skaters Adelina Sotnikova (right) and Julia Lipnitskaya (left) after an award ceremony for Russian athletes Monday in Sochi. Russia staged a successful Olympics, but we shouldn't be ...

NEW YORK — Comcast, the largest US cable and broadband provider, and Netflix, the giant television and movie streaming service, said Sunday that Netflix will pay Comcast for faster and more reliable access to Comcast subscribers. The deal is a milestone ...

UNITED NATIONS — In a hard-fought show of unity among world powers, the UN Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to order the warring parties in Syria to stop blocking the delivery of humanitarian aid, though without the immediate prospect of ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Florida software designer accused of killing a black teenager during an argument over loud music compared himself to a rape victim, telling his fiancee in a recorded jailhouse phone call that the police were trying to blame him for ...