London: Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest known Holocaust survivor and the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary, has died in London aged 110, her family announced Sunday. Herz-Sommer, originally from Prague in what is now the Czech ...

The hotel were Joaquín Guzmán Loera was arrested, the Miramar, attracted bystanders on Sunday, many of whom took photos. Kirsten Luce for The New York Times. MAZATLÁN, Mexico — They reacted here with utter disbelief. Joaquín Guzmán Loera, El ...

Cash: $12-million (U.S.). Decoration of a dining hall and tea room: $2.3-million. Statue of a wild boar: $115,000. “A bribe”: $4,000. These are some of the expenses detailed in financial documents found in President Viktor Yanukovych's abandoned residence, ...

MARANA, Ariz. -- Jason Day won the Match Play Championship on Sunday by surviving the amazing par saves of Victor Dubuisson. [+] Enlarge Jason Day. Andy Lyons/Getty Images Jason Day reacts after winning the championship match on the 23rd hole.

Netflix has reached an agreement with cable and Internet giant Comcast so that the US video-streaming service's programming can be viewed more smoothly, the two have announced. The companies "have established a more direct connection between ...

The biggest mobile show technically starts on Monday, but the news won't wait. We've wrapped up the biggest news from MWC 2014's press day so that you don't have to hunt for it. Lindsey Turrentine. by Lindsey Turrentine. February 23, 2014 5:15 PM PST.

Joaquin Guzman, the drug kingpin known as “El Chapo” who was arrested Saturday in Mexico, has been wanted in Chicago since at least 2009, when he was indicted along with 10 other Sinaloa cartel leaders in what was considered the most significant drug ...

People look through windows of the Mezhyhirya residence of Ukraine's former president Viktor Yanukovich as anti-government protesters and journalists walk on the grounds in the village Novi Petrivtsi, outside Kiev. Photograph: Konstantin Chernichkin/ ...

A victim of Syria's military barrel bombs is watched over by her uncle at a hospital in Kilis in Turkey. Weeks of aerial bombardment have nearly emptied entire neighbourhoods in Aleppo. Photograph: Bryan Denton/The New York Times. Michael Jansen. Topics ...

As you note, Comcast and Time Warner Cable operate in separate markets, so there is no reduction in competition from the merger, which will simply move Time Warner Cable customers from one provider to another, bringing Comcast's superior technology ...

A TINY zircon crystal embedded in sandstone found on a sheep ranch in Australia is the oldest piece of the Earth's crust to be discovered, shedding new light on our planet's formation. The zircon, described in the journal Nature Geoscience, is much smaller ...

A TINY zircon crystal embedded in sandstone found on a sheep ranch in Australia is the oldest piece of the Earth's crust to be discovered, shedding new light on our planet's formation. The zircon, described in the journal Nature Geoscience, is much smaller ...

Half a year after the first Firefox devices went on sale, Mozilla is coming up with more of its own ideas about how a mobile OS should work. Here's what's coming in the next year. Stephen Shankland. by Stephen Shankland. February 23, 2014 4:20 PM PST.

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the world's most notorious drug lord, could be extradited to the United States to face trial on trafficking charges amid fears that no jail in his native Mexico could hold him. Guzman, 56, who escaped from a high-security Mexican ...

What does the Comcast Comcast and Netflix Netflix joint announcement – that the companies have made a deal so that Comcast's broadband customers will receive a “high-quality Netflix video experience” — say about the Netflix view of the future?