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Byline: BEN SOLOMON, Rutgers Athletics Nebraska worked out several kickers last week, and a couple appear to be on the radar. Iowa Western Community College kicker Josh Jasek said via [...]

Byline: BEN SOLOMON, Rutgers Athletics Will the wind chill crest above 0 degrees today? Eh, maybe not. But we can take a drive anyway and crank the heat. 1. If [...]

Byline: BEN SOLOMON, Rutgers Athletics Will the wind chill crest above 0 degrees today? Eh, maybe not. But we can take a drive anyway and crank the heat. 1. If [...]

Byline: BEN SOLOMON, Rutgers Athletics Things I know, and things I think I know: Texas last week hired what is believed to be the first $1 million-a-year special-teams coach. Nebraska [...]

Byline: BEN SOLOMON, Rutgers Athletics Nebraska's best offensive output of the 2020 season came in its final game, in the cold on Dec. 18 at Rutgers. The Huskers' point total [...]

Byline: BEN SOLOMON, Rutgers Athletics Jonathan Rutledge, who just completed his first season as senior special teams analyst for the Nebraska football team, is no longer with the program, a [...]

Byline: Ben Solomon, Rutgers Athletics LARAMIE -- Wyoming coach Craig Bohl filled the lone vacancy on his coaching staff with an assistant with Power Five experience. Bohl on Monday announced [...]

Byline: BEN SOLOMON, Rutgers Athletics PISCATAWAY, N.J. - Amidst the joy of a cramped visitors locker room on Friday night at SHI Stadium, it was difficult to discern just how [...]

TA PHRAYA NATIONAL PARK, Thailand -- The rangers walked for hours in almost complete silence through the dense Thai forest, never speaking above a whisper. Even in the early morning, [...]

THAT PHANOM, Thailand -- Sprawled on a bamboo mat, Supattra Inthirat closed her eyes as her father massaged her hard arms with oil and menthol. In preparation for her 15th [...]

Byline: BEN C. SOLOMON GOROKA, Papua New Guinea -- Claiming that the rice she had cooked for dinner was too hot, Ambai's husband suddenly punched her in the temple and [...]

Byline: BEN C. SOLOMON PALU, Indonesia -- Two weeks after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated his neighborhood, Anjas Firmansyah is still desperate to see his wife and son. Each [...]

PALU, Indonesia -- Two weeks after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated his neighborhood, Anjas Firmansyah is still desperate to see his wife and son. Each day, he stands beside [...]

MAE SAI, Thailand -- Three weeks after they emerged from a flooded cave complex, guided to safety by expert divers while their families and supporters around the world awaited word [...]

KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh -- The Haruns, a family of Rohingya refugees, live on a barren hillside in southern Bangladesh in an improvised shack. The annual monsoon rains could wash away their [...]

MARAWI, Philippines -- As she approached her house for the first time since militants took over the neighborhood, evidence of a disaster unfolded around Haydee Dimalawang: ''ISIS'' spray-painted on the [...]

Byline: BEN C. SOLOMON and FELIPE VILLAMOR MARAWI, Philippines -- As she approached her house for the first time since militants took over the neighborhood, evidence of a disaster unfolded [...]

COM, East Timor -- On a rainy spring morning, Fizzy Moslim strapped on her weathered-chrome diving tank and slipped into the warm water. Few visitors make it out to the [...]

NAYAPARA REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh -- A truck trying to overtake another car darted out from the wrong side of the road and slammed into the rickshaw. The tiny vehicle crumpled [...]

The Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority fleeing Myanmar's far western Rakhine State, have fled into Bangladesh by the hundreds of thousands, turning informal refugee camps there into a sprawling and [...]

BALUKHALI, Bangladesh -- Up to their ankles in mud, hundreds of Rohingya refugees fought to the front of the crowd outside of their makeshift camp. An open-bed truck full of [...]

Byline: BEN C. SOLOMON BALUKHALI, Bangladesh -- Up to their ankles in mud, hundreds of Rohingya refugees fought to the front of the crowd outside of their makeshift camp. An [...]

MARAWI, Philippines -- The houses still standing after more than three months of fierce urban combat in Marawi are barely holding on -- pocked with bullet holes on the outside [...]

Byline: BEN C. SOLOMON and FELIPE VILLAMOR MARAWI, Philippines -- The houses still standing after more than three months of fierce urban combat in Marawi are barely holding on -- [...]

MOSUL, Iraq -- The water taps are dry in Rashidiya. The water and sewage system collapsed in this eastern Mosul neighborhood after 100 days of street combat. On Sunday, Haitham [...]

MARSEILLE, France -- In the United States and Europe, mainstream political parties find themselves besieged. Two-party systems that were once stable are under new pressure, fracturing and creating openings for [...]

Byline: BEN C. SOLOMON TSHIFUDI, South Africa -- As the sun reached its highest point of the day, men started to trickle onto a green field where cows gather. Quickly, [...]

TSHIFUDI, South Africa -- As the sun reached its highest point of the day, men started to trickle onto a green field where cows gather. Quickly, they formed a circle, [...]

PARIS -- The Times has produced a virtual reality film from footage of candlelight vigils in Paris. To view it, download the NYT VR app on your mobile device if [...]

Byline: BEN C. SOLOMON KENEMA, Sierra Leone -- Under the hot midday sun, Erison Turay was lecturing his teammates before their first game. 'Do not look happy,' he told them, [...]

Byline: BEN C. SOLOMON MONROVIA, Liberia -- Racing along cracked and bumpy roads here, Gordon Kamara shouted into his cellphone over the shrieking sirens of his ambulance. The phone had [...]

MONROVIA, Liberia -- Racing along cracked and bumpy roads here, Gordon Kamara shouted into his cellphone over the shrieking sirens of his ambulance. The phone had been ringing nonstop since [...]

Byline: ADAM NOSSITER and BEN C. SOLOMON KENEMA, Sierra Leone -- The best defense against despair was to keep working. Many times, that choice was far from obvious: Josephine Finda [...]

KENEMA, Sierra Leone -- The best defense against despair was to keep working. Many times, that choice was far from obvious: Josephine Finda Sellu lost 15 of her nurses to [...]

JERUSALEM -- On a Thursday night early in December, Pinchas Zerbib took off his traditional cotton skullcap. In its place, he put on a polyester one. ''It's my Under Armour [...]

The article reports on the conflicting reports on the actual number of victims of the dam failure in Laos in July 2018, noting the unclear scale of the search and rescue effort and poor government response of the disaster.

The article reports on the warning signs before the collapse of a dam in Laos which led to flood on July 26, 2018, killing many people and displacing others, while some are still missing.

JERUSALEM -- As Egypt prepared to open its border with Gaza on Saturday, Israeli officials said they were worried about weapons and militants flowing into the Hamas-controlled strip and about what the move indicated for Egypt's future policies. The government did not issue a statement, saying it was in contact with the Egyptian authorities and wanted to see how the change played out in practice before reacting. Others did not wait. ''This is a dangerous development that could lead to the smuggling of weapons, explosives and Al Qaeda agents into Gaza,'' Silvan Shalom, a deputy prime minister from the right-wing Likud Party, said on Israel Radio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the failure of a dam under construction in Attapeu Province, Laos in July 2018 on topics including the flooding in the villages, the investigation of the causes of the failure and the questions on dam standards.

The article discusses the social conditions of Myanmar and the role of United Nations in the prevalence of Human Rights in Myanmar.

The article discusses the effects of an influx of Syrian refugees in Lebanon caused by the Syrian revolution and civil war. Topics discusses include sectarian violence in Lebanon, the Lebanese government's policy toward providing aid to refugees, and the conditions for refugees in the city of Qaa, Lebanon.