NEWS The United Nations reported that 11,000 Syrians fled on Friday, the vast majority of them clambering for safety over the Turkish border. Rick Gladstone and Neil MacFarquhar report.
The question on the minds of many in the German capital the morning after Barack Obama secured his second term was not how the president would save the United States from the “fiscal cliff,†or whether he would close the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay. It was far more personal: Would he visit Berlin? Melissa Eddy reports from Berlin.
Matteo Renzi, the 37-year-old mayor of Florence, is touring Italy in a white camper, delivering rousing speeches with a bit of American-style campaigning as he competes in a primary vote this month that will decide who will lead Italy's center-left Democratic Party in national elections next year. Elisabetta Povoledo reports from Verbania, Italy.
A writer's voice has always had special weight in Russia, but it matters only when Russians are ready to listen. At least that is the experience of Boris Akunin, the best-selling detective novelist who popped up late last year as a prominent member of the political opposition to President Vladimir V. Putin. Celestine Bohlen writes from Paris.
ARTS The art scene in the Portuguese city of Guimarães has flourished since it was declared a European Capital of Culture for 2012 and awarded the European subsidies that go with the title. Raphael Minder reports.
The two international auction houses are heading for an impasse where Impressionist and Modern art is concerned. That became obvious this week as gigantic prices alternated with abrupt failures to sell. Souren Melikian writes from New York.
WINE Aglianico, a serious Italian grape from Campania, has not received the attention it deserves, but that is about to change. Eric Pfanner writes on wine from Tarausi, Italy.
SPORTS A casual observer might not think there was much that connected Ulsan i n South Korea and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, two industrial cities at the opposite ends of Asia, but there are ships, oil and, on Saturday at least, soccer. Clubs from South Korea and Saudi Arabia will play Saturday for the Asian Champions League title. John Duerden reports from Ulsan, South Korea.
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