Few foreigners welcomed President Biden’s election victory as enthusiastically as the tens of thousands of Muslims who have been locked out of the United States for the past four years.

The exercises, which included 13 warplanes on Saturday and 15 on Sunday, were the biggest so far this year and the first under the new U.S. administration.

After a series of high-profile disputes in rural areas, the French Parliament has passed a bill that enshrines countryside smells and sounds as protected national heritage.

Leaderless but united by racist ideology that has been supercharged by social media, extremists have built a web of real and online connections that worry officials.

At least 11 miners who were trapped 2,000 feet below ground in the blast have been rescued. Others are still missing.

Health secretary says case rate too high to ease restrictions; first Pfizer dose does not immediately prevent infection, says Israeli health minister‘A complete massacre, a horror film’: inside Brazil’s Covid disasterNew Zealand records first Covid community case in two monthsJeremy Hunt: ‘UK lockdown just isn’t working quickly enough’Rachel Clarke: ‘NHS staff are burning with frustration […]

Humans are designed to touch and be touched – which is why so many who live on their own have suffered during the pandemic. Will we ever fully recover?There’s only so much a dog can do, even if that is a lot. I live alone with my staffy, and by week eight of the first […]

Escalation prompts US president, Joe Biden, to make first public remarks on relationship with TaipeiChinese bombers and fighter jets have entered Taiwan’s air defence identification zone for the second day in a row in an unusual and provocative escalation of its military activities that has prompted the Joe Biden administration’s first public remarks on its […]

With much of the country under a blanket of snow, police warn the public to stick to the rulesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe gloom of lockdown was lifted on Sunday by the unfamiliar glow of snow in large parts of the UK, but police reminded the public to confine snowball fights to […]

Experts agree the great days of US news broadcasting are long gone, but this week still brought poignant remindersNews giants put more women in the White HouseAs Tennyson – and Withnail’s Uncle Monty – had it, the old order changeth, yielding place to new. Larry King, whose death was announced on Saturday, was not the […]

“Only three per cent of the Earth’s water is drinkable.” What per cent of the Earth’s Diet Coke is drinkable, though?

A free, online cryptic crossword puzzle from the New Yorker’s archive, with answers and clues that exhibit the wit and intelligence of the magazine.

From The New Yorker’s archive: stories about how the concept of home has shifted over time.

After seeing the rest of the world reported on so often through an American lens, it is somehow reassuring, in Theroux’s documentaries, to see the tables turned—America as a foreign country.