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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters Robots at Work and Play
Recent images of robotic technology around the world
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Leah Millis / Reuters How to Respond to a Diplomatic Crisis Like Khashoggi’s Disappearance
“This is not a good example on how to handle these situations."
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© Google Seven Square Miles
Snapshots from Google Earth, all rectangles of the same size and scale, approximately three and a half miles wide by two miles tall—showing seven square miles of the varied surface of our planet in each view
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Raheb Homavandi / Reuters America’s Indefinite Endgame in Syria
The Trump administration wants to stay in the country to counter Iran. What if Iran never leaves?
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Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters The Small Party Threatening to Topple Theresa May’s Government
Hard-line Euroskeptics have already made Brexit negotiations difficult for the prime minister. The Northern Irish party propping up her government just made it harder.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Why the U.S. Can’t Quit Saudi Arabia
The suspected murder of a Saudi journalist has exposed cracks in a long-standing partnership.
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Francois Lenoir / Reuters How One 'Political Wunderkind' Is Outmaneuvering the Far Right
The 32-year-old Austrian chancellor’s strategy is inspiring conservative parties in Europe.
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Kayhan Ozer / Presidential Press Office / Reuters The Irony of Turkey’s Crusade for a Missing Journalist
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has strangled the free press, but his country has emerged as the source of grisly information about Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance.
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Ludovic Marin / Reuters The President of the United States Asks, ‘What’s an Ally?’
In a wide-ranging interview with ‘60 Minutes,’ Donald Trump revisited one of his favorite themes.
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Murad Sezer / Reuters Saudi Arabia Does a Big Favor for Iran
With its alleged hand in the disappearance of a dissident journalist, the kingdom stands accused of the sort of actions it usually calls out the Islamic Republic for carrying out.
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Sergio Perez / Reuters The Politics of a Long-Dead Dictator Still Haunt Spain
The debate over exhuming Francisco Franco reveals a country still divided over his legacy—and what Spain’s bloody civil war means today.
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Tony Gentile / Reuters Pope Francis Is Still Equivocating on the Sex-Abuse Crisis
He stands by those to whom he’s loyal but, when faced with new evidence, is also willing to change his mind.
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Umit Bektas / Reuters The Case of an American Pastor Caught in a Geopolitical Fight
Andrew Brunson became a focal point for U.S.-Turkey tensions—but his release won’t resolve them.
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U.S. National Park Service / Reuters Photos of the Week: Sea Monsters, Hawaiian Sunrise, Cosmodrome Camels
A seal pup in Wales, a luxury hotel in a quarry pit in Shanghai, space-suit testing on a tropical island, damage from Hurricane Michael in Florida, Swiss fighter aircraft in the Alps, and much more
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A Russian Mail-Order Bride and a Jaw-Dropping Twist
The hilarious, stranger-than-fiction story of a mother and son who emigrate to America and get more than they bargained for.
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Mohammed Huwais / AFP / Getty The End of American Lip Service to Human Rights
The administration’s reticence about the disappearance of a Saudi journalist is offensive, but it’s also clarifying.
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Murad Sezer / Reuters How Saudi Media Is Addressing Jamal Khashoggi’s Disappearance
The kingdom’s response in the West has been publicly muted.
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Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters The ‘Silent Majority’ Fighting Germany’s Far Right
A march in Berlin this weekend will demonstrate whether the German activists who oppose the country’s rising far right are serious.
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Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters The Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal Takes Down a Cardinal
The pope has accepted the resignation of the leader of the Archdiocese of Washington. What happens next?
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Boris Pelcer What Óscar Romero’s Canonization Says About Pope Francis
Reassessing the Catholic Church’s dubious history in Latin America
