Sarah Lyall New York Times

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  How Do You Talk To Your Children About Donald Trump? Thoughtfully

  It was mortifying enough when last week's Republican debate introduced the question of whether it was appropriate for one presidential candidate to accuse another of wetting his pants. But the final straw for Gary Goyette and Andrea Todd, who were watching at home in Sacramento, California, with their 10-year-old son, was Donald J. Trump's jarring,...

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  Up in Arms Over 'Soccer'

  The 'soccer vs football' debate has been quite furious over the span of a century with many questioning Americans and why they stick to referring to the sport as the former.

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  The Olympic Spirit, British Style: When Will This Nightmare End?

  While the world's athletes limber up at the Olympic Park, Londoners are practicing some of their own favorite sports: complaining, expecting the worst and cursing the authorities.

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  A hacking case becomes a war of the tabloids

  Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal: It was a classic tabloid scoop: a young woman's account of a two-year affair with the actor Ralph Fiennes, spiced up with racy details of what he liked to do and how he liked to do it. Three newspapers - The Sunday Mirror, The Mail on Sunday and News of the World - carried their versions of the tale on February...

• Rupert Murdoch on phone-hacking scandal: 'Let down by people I trusted'

  It was riveting theater, a newly emboldened parliamentary committee facing off against the 80-year-old Rupert Murdoch, the world's most powerful media mogul, in a series of exchanges designed to get to the bottom of the phone hacking scandal that has engulfed not just Mr. Murdoch's News Corporation, but also Britain's political and law-enforcement ...

• Phone hacking scandal: London police assistant commissioner resigns

  The phone hacking scandal in Britain brought down another high-profile figure on Monday when John Yates, the assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London and the country's most senior counter-terrorism officer, resigned his post. His departure came a day after the country's top police officer quit and Rebekah Brooks, the former chief...

• Scandal grows over UK tabloid hacking girl's cell

  Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal:Political pressure is bearing down on Rebekah Brooks, a top executive of the News Corporation in Britain, following allegations that one of the company's newspapers hacked the cellphone of a 13-year-old girl who was abducted and murdered in 2002, when Ms. Brooks was its editor.

• A hacking case becomes a war of the tabloids

  Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal: It was a classic tabloid scoop: a young woman's account of a two-year affair with the actor Ralph Fiennes, spiced up with racy details of what he liked to do and how he liked to do it. Three newspapers - The Sunday Mirror, The Mail on Sunday and News of the World - carried their versions of the tale on February...

• Heathrow hell continues for passengers

  Huddled together Thursday morning with hundreds of displaced passengers in a large semiheated tent outside Terminal 1 at Heathrow Airport, Dennis and Bonnie Barlow of Virginia were reviewing the high points of their vacation so far. First, they cruised the Mediterranean on the Brilliance of the Seas, the ship, now notorious, whose battle with hurri...

• Nobel Peace Prize ceremony honours Liu Xiaobo

  Imprisoned in China  and with close family members forbidden to leave the country, the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo  was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, his absence represented at the prize ceremony here on Friday by an empty chair. (Read: Who is Liu Xiaobo?)In Beijing, the Chinese authorities, who have been incensed by the choic...

• Empty chair for Chinese winner at Nobel ceremony

  With an empty chair on the podium, Norway's Nobel Committee braved furious Chinese protests on Friday, preparing to honor the jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in his absence, without handing over its coveted, golden peace medal to a named winner for the first time in over 70 years. Around a third of the 64 invited countries with embassies in Osl...

• Prince William, Kate pick a date at Westminster Abbey

  The date and location have been set: the wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton is to take place on Friday, April 29th at Westminster Abbey. An aide to Prince William said on Tuesday that the couple had chosen the Abbey, where Queen Elizabeth was also married, for its "staggering beauty" and because it offers intimacy despite its gr...

• Briton loses Twitter case, but wins following

  The troubles of Paul J. Chambers began on a cold night in January, when his attempt to visit a woman from Northern Ireland he had met online was thwarted by a snowstorm that grounded flights at his local airport. Mr. Chambers's first reaction, as in many things in his life, was to address the issue on Twitter."Robin Hood Airport is closed," Mr. Cha...

• Twitter rant turned this man into a criminal

  The troubles of Paul J Chambers began on a cold night in January, when his attempt to visit a woman from Northern Ireland he had met online was thwarted by a snowstorm that grounded flights at his local airport. Mr. Chambers's first reaction, as in many things in his life, was to address the issue on Twitter."Robin Hood Airport is closed," Mr. Cham...

• Britain details radical cuts in spending, citing debt

  Seeking to free itself of crushing debt, the British government unveiled the country's steepest public spending cuts in decades on Wednesday, sharply reducing welfare benefits, raising the retirement age earlier than planned and eliminating almost half a million public sector jobs over the next four years. "Today is the day when Britain steps back ...