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LONDON -- The crisis ritual that will play out this week in Europe is all too familiar: Markets will gyrate. National leaders will huddle. A summit meeting in Brussels will [...]

MESSINA, Sicily -- The old music school is overflowing. The building is now a migrant shelter for unaccompanied minors, able to house 224 teenagers -- except that it is overstuffed [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDMILAN -- The waiters glided through the crowded dining room of InGalera, a restaurant that opened recently to rave reviews. Dinner reservations are almost fully booked for March, and [...]

ROME -- In the cage fight of American presidential politics, the matchup is irresistible: Pope Francis, leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, the pope of the poor who [...]

HAVANA -- In brokering the historic thaw between Cuba and the United States, Pope Francis stepped squarely into the thorny realm of geopolitics, sending letters to the presidents of both [...]

VATICAN CITY -- Days after the election of Pope Francis, word reached the Vatican press office that the new pontiff was unexpectedly celebrating morning Mass. Other popes had presided over [...]

VATICAN CITY -- In brokering the historic thaw between Cuba and the United States, Pope Francis stepped squarely into the thorny realm of geopolitics, sending letters to the presidents of [...]

CIVITA DI BAGNOREGIO, Italy -- Forgive Sandro Rocchi if he seems a smidgen satisfied as he enjoys a midday glass of red wine at his children's restaurant and relishes the [...]

ATHENS -- His hands smeared with engine grease, Markos Kalfakis once worked with three other mechanics repairing support vans for the city's electric buses. Now he is the only one [...]

RACALE, Italy -- Across the stony heel of Italy, a peninsula ringed by the blue-green waters of the Mediterranean, olive trees have existed for centuries, shaping the landscape and producing [...]

ROME -- The Italian police on Thursday charged 15 Muslim men with homicide aggravated by religious hatred after survivors of a migrant boat rescued in the Mediterranean told investigators that [...]

ROME -- With spring barely arrived, the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean is already approaching last year's record levels after a startling weekend in which more than 5,600 people were [...]

ROME -- Perhaps the timing was purely coincidental. But a day after he was credited with helping to broker the historic diplomatic breakthrough between Cuba and the United States, Pope [...]

MILAN -- With Europe once again rattling global markets, many of the largest European countries are now rebelling against the German gospel of belt-tightening and demanding more radical steps to [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDSARCELLES, France -- From the immigrant enclaves of the Parisian suburbs to the drizzly bureaucratic city of Brussels to the industrial heartland of Germany, Europe's old demon returned this [...]

FORTE DEI MARMI, Italy -- In this seaside resort town that is Italy's version of a Russian Riviera, where furs dangle in shop windows in August and beach clubs keep [...]

ROME -- For weeks, Beppe Grillo, the Italian political insurgent, has crisscrossed the nation in what might be called his vitriol tour. He has let loose zesty, bellowing insults against [...]

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis marks the first anniversary of his papacy on Thursday having become so globally celebrated that he recently felt compelled to deflate his own ''superman'' aura. [...]

ROME -- Five global clothing brands and retailers on Sunday became the first contributors to a new fund raising $40 million for victims of the Rana Plaza factory disaster in [...]

Criticized over unsafe conditions and low pay in its garment industry, Bangladesh took a first step to raise wages on Monday with a special government-appointed board voting to nearly double [...]

ROME -- With European parliamentary elections less than eight months away, Prime Minister Enrico Letta of Italy on Monday warned that the rise of angry populism poses the greatest threat [...]

ROME -- From the moment he was introduced to the huge crowds waiting for a new pope in the rain at St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis has been a surprise. [...]

NEW DELHI -- The fading bungalow at 38 Amrita Shergil Marg does not immediately shout real estate bling. There is no tennis court, no infinity pool, no Sub-Zero refrigerator or [...]

NEW DELHI -- Not too long ago, when India's economy was roaring amid predictions of high growth rates for years to come, the finance minister could be forgiven for strutting [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDNEW DELHI -- A crowd of Tibetans came here to India's capital last week, bearing flags and political banners and a bittersweet admixture of hope and despair. A grim [...]

ASHULIA, Bangladesh -- The fire alarm shattered the monotony of the Tazreen Fashions factory. Hundreds of seamstresses looked up from their machines, startled. On the third floor, Shima Akhter Pakhi [...]

NEW DELHI -- India's governing party has no shortage of problems: a sinking economy, corruption scandals and a rising anti-incumbency mood among voters. But perhaps the greatest uncertainty facing the [...]

NEW DELHI -- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a rare nationwide televised appeal on Friday night to defend a series of unpopular measures, intended to revive the floundering Indian economy, [...]

NEW DELHI -- The turmoil surrounding India's national government intensified Wednesday, with a growing number of regional partners threatening to withdraw their support from the government and a former ally [...]

NEW DELHI -- His business rivals never fully understood how Manoj Jayaswal got so rich so fast, except that he often seemed joined at the hip with powerful politicians. He [...]

ASHULIA, Bangladesh -- His tiny office was lost among the hulking garment factories that churn out cargo pants or polo shirts for brands like Gap or Tommy Hilfiger, yet workers [...]

ISHWARDI, Bangladesh -- The air thickened with tear gas as police and paramilitary officers jogged into the Ishwardi Export Processing Zone firing rubber bullets and swinging cane poles. Panicked factory [...]

NEW DELHI -- It had all the makings of a disaster movie: More than half a billion people without power. Trains motionless on the tracks. Miners trapped underground. Subway lines [...]

MUMBAI, India -- For his starring role in the recent action movie ''Ishaqzaade,'' the young actor Arjun Kapoor did the prep work expected of an aspiring leading man in Bollywood. [...]

NEW DELHI -- Ordinarily, Pranab Mukherjee might be considered a shoo-in for the largely ceremonial position of president of India. The job usually goes to someone of stature, or at [...]

MUMBAI, India -- Men and women here in India's largest city, a congested, humanity-soaked metropolis of roughly 20 million residents, would seem bound by at least one common misery: far [...]

MUMBAI, India -- Inside his tiny office near the entrance of Crawford Market, Arvind Morde is a bit harried. It is mango season, after all. His telephone rings. A client [...]

NEW DELHI -- India's coalition government just celebrated the third anniversary of its tenure with a self-congratulatory banquet that could not have been more poorly timed: India's currency, the rupee, [...]

KATMANDU, Nepal -- Nepal descended into a new crisis on Sunday after rival political parties in the Himalayan nation failed to reach an agreement on a new constitution before the [...]

KAZIKOT VILLAGE, India -- In this village not far from the Pakistani border, the wheat harvest is only days away. Water buffaloes are resting in the shade. Farmers are preparing [...]

NEW DELHI -- Leaders of five emerging world economic powers convened on Thursday for a one-day diplomatic meeting, pledging to expand mutual trade while urging faster reforms of the Western-dominated [...]

NEW DELHI -- As the shock waves of the global recession convulsed Europe and the United States three years ago, the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China gathered for [...]

NEW DELHI -- The activist Anna Hazare returned to the spotlight with a protest on Sunday, wearing his familiar white Gandhian cap and sitting cross-legged for a one-day hunger strike [...]

MUZAFFARNAGAR, India -- Along the narrow lane known as Khadar Wallah, Muslims and low-caste Hindus have lived side by side for years, bound by poverty, if not religion. Yet recently, [...]

NEW DELHI -- The Maldives remained gripped by political turmoil on Wednesday, with violent clashes between the police and protesters in the capital, as well as claims by the island [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED LUCKNOW, India -- With more than 200 million people, including some of the poorest on the planet, Uttar Pradesh is so big that it could be the fifth-largest [...]

NEW DELHI -- An ugly political year in India ended last week with an ugly political spectacle. Shouting and bickering like schoolchildren, Indian lawmakers provided the nation with a televised [...]

GURGAON, India -- In this city that barely existed two decades ago, there are 26 shopping malls, seven golf courses and luxury shops selling Chanel and Louis Vuitton. Mercedes-Benzes and [...]

NEW DELHI -- For more than 40 years, reformers and other agitators have tried in vain to cleanse India of corruption. They have staged demonstrations, candlelight vigils and protest marches [...]

PUTTAPARTHI, India -- His face adorns the yellow motorized rickshaws zipping down the streets. Billboards bear his simple motto, ''Love All, Serve All.'' His portrait hangs in almost every shop: [...]