NEWS Barack Hussein Obama was re-elected president of the United States on Tuesday, overcoming powerful economic headwinds, a lock-step resistance to his agenda by Republicans in Congress and an unprecedented torrent of advertising as a divided nation voted to give him more time. Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg report.
Citizens from France, China, Egypt, Brazil and South Africa weigh in on the American presidential election and what they think the next president needs to do when it comes to their country. Watch the video.
An epidemic of dengue fever in India is fostering a growing sense of alarm even as government officials here have publicly refused to acknowledge the scope of a problem that experts say is threatening hundreds of millions of people, not just in India but around the world. Gardiner Harris reports from New Delhi.
The Greek government prepared to push a raft of politically toxic new austerity measures through Parliament on Wednesday, a move a imed at securing international financing and ensuring that the debt-racked nation will remain in the euro zone. Liz Alderman and Rachel Donadio report from Athens.
Responding to calls to make French industry more competitive by reducing labor costs, the Socialist government of President François Hollande said Tuesday that it would cut payroll taxes for businesses. David Jolly reports from Paris.
The firing of Anatoly E. Serdyukov, a longtime Putin ally, is one of the highest-level dismissals connected to a corruption case in recent memory in Russia. Andrew E. Kramer reports from Moscow.
ARTS A new opera commissioned by the Bayerische Staatsoper re-imagines the biblical city, complete with spaceship. George Loomis writes from Munich.
SPORTS Neymar, a Brazilian who plays in his home country's soccer league, and Luis Suárez, a Uruguayan who plays for Liverpool, deserve the respect they have earned. Rob Hughes on soccer.
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