NEWS Foreign policy issues provoked two of the sharpest moments of the between President Obama and the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney. They clashed over the attack that killed four Americans in Libya, and there was a testy exchange about trade policy toward China. Mark McDonald writes from Hong Kong.
A Spanish court on Tuesday opened the trial of a former ship captain and three other defendants over their involvement in one of Europe's worst oil spills, the sinking of the tanker Prestige a decade ago, when it split in two and devastated Spain's northwestern coastline. Raphael Minder reports from A Coruña, Spain.
Art thieves made off overnight with seven paintings, including a Picasso, a Matisse, a Gauguin and two Monets, from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. Doreen Carvajal reports from Paris.
See a slide show of the missing art.
What does Google know about its users and how does it know it? European privacy regulators on Tuesday warned the com pany to clarify those issues - or risk fines or other penalties by early next year. Eric Pfanner and Kevin O'Brien report.
Decades after they were dug to provide material for an airstrip during World War II, “borrow pits†are eroding islanders' quality of life on the Pacific island of Tuvalu. Matt Siegel reports from Funafuti, Tuvalu.
THEATER Fiona Shaw seems born to play Howard Barker's Galactia, bringing a sensual splendor to the revival of Mr. Barker's onetime radio play “Scenes From an Execution,†at the National Theatre's Lyttelton auditorium in London. Matt Wolf reviews that play and others.
OPERA “Written on Skin,†by the British composer George Benjamin, has started to make the rounds of four European opera houses in an absorbing production by Katie Mitchell. George Loomis writes from Amsterdam.
ART Art is popping up all over Paris on the eve of the opulent International Contemporary Art Fair known as FIAC, which runs Thursday th rough Sunday in Paris. Nina Siegal previews the event.
SPORTS Santi Cazorla has been one of the most effective players in the Premier League this year with Arsenal, yet he is third in line on the Spanish national team. Rob Hughes on soccer.
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