Fernando Botero, the Colombian whose voluptuous pictures and sculptures of overstuffed generals, bishops, prostitutes, housewives and other products of his magic-realist imagination made him one of the world’s best-known artists,…
Howard Safir, who presided over declining rates of violent crime as New York City’s police commissioner in the late 1990s, but who struck many New Yorkers as tone-deaf to racial…
More than 5,000 people were killed in Libya after torrential rains caused two dams to burst near the coastal city of Derna, destroying much of the city and carrying entire…
Thousands of people have been killed in Libya in the flooding caused by heavy rains that devastated parts of the country this weekend, a disaster exacerbated by the collapse of…
Deadly floods swept through northeastern Libya over the weekend, with the top official in the region warning that the toll could exceed 2,000 dead as rescue teams searched for survivors.…
Deadly floods swept through northeastern Libya over the weekend, with the top official in the region warning that the toll could exceed 2,000 dead as rescue teams searched for survivors.…
Ian Wilmut, the British scientist who led the project that cloned a mammal for the first time, Dolly the sheep, shocking scientists who had thought that cloning was impossible, has…
Mr. Buffett’s 1974 release “Living and Dying in ¾ Time” included a version of the comedian Lord Buckley’s “God’s Own Drunk.” “Come Monday,” a lovelorn track from the record, became…
In 1979, the Fayed brothers bought the fading Ritz Hotel in Paris for under $30 million and, with a 10-year, $250 million renovation, turned it into one of the world’s…
Two adults, a toddler and a baby were found dead on Monday in an Upper West Side apartment in Manhattan, according to police officials. The man, 41, and the woman,…
Its leader is officially dead, as is its founding commander. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is claiming it doesn’t exist. Wagner, the once-powerful Russian private military company that fell…
Multiple deaths were reported after a shooting on Saturday afternoon at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Fla., officials said. The office of the city’s mayor, Donna Deegan, confirmed in…
At least five people died in Michigan after severe storms on Thursday night led to heavy rain, strong wind gusts and possible tornadoes. Three people were killed in Kent County…
Windham Rotunda, a former World Wrestling Entertainment champion and a third-generation professional wrestler known as Bray Wyatt, died on Thursday at the age of 36, the company announced. Mr. Rotunda’s…