Author: NY TIMES

At first, Nigel Farage kept his cool. When protesters disrupted an election victory speech by Mr. Farage, Britain’s veteran political disrupter, anti-immigration activist and ally of former president Donald J. Trump, he ignored them.But as the chaos persisted at the media conference on Friday, Mr. Farage began heckling back, drowning out critics by shouting “boring!” into the microphone no fewer than nine times.With Mr. Farage around, things are rarely boring, however, as Britain’s center-right Conservative Party has just discovered to its cost.Driven from power after 14 years by a Labour Party landslide, the Conservatives collapsed to their worst defeat in…

When the meaty palm of Vasil Kamotskii, a 360-pound, 34-year-old pig farmer from Siberia known as Dumpling, struck the tender cheek of the man who faced him, it sounded like a thunderclap. Dumpling didn’t appear to expend much effort — he swung lazily, the way you might bat a fly. But it was enough to send his opponent, Kamil Marusarz, a 26-year-old from Orland Park, Ill., toppling to the ground.Referees and the medical staff onstage at the Cobalt Ballroom at the Fontainebleau Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas late last month rushed to check on Mr. Marusarz. Any hesitation in…

As Elon Musk’s Starship — the largest rocket ever manufactured — successfully blasted toward the sky last month, the launch was hailed as a giant leap for SpaceX and the United States’ civilian space program.Two hours later, once conditions were deemed safe, a team from SpaceX, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a conservation group began canvassing the fragile migratory bird habitat surrounding the launch site.The impact was obvious.The launch had unleashed an enormous burst of mud, stones and fiery debris across the public lands encircling Mr. Musk’s $3 billion space compound. Chunks of sheet metal and insulation were…

The moulin is back. The rouge never left.The Moulin Rouge, the famed Paris cabaret, has restored its iconic windmill after its blades broke and fell to the ground in April. The construction was finished weeks before the Paris Olympics are set to begin — and before the flame passes by on its relay route through Paris on July 15.“We wanted to be ready for this special moment,” said Jean-Victor Clerico, the managing director, whose family has run the cabaret since 1955, adding, “The Moulin Rouge without the blades? It’s not the same.”The cabaret, whose name means “red windmill” in French,…

Landslides and floods set off by torrential rains have killed at least 15 people in Nepal in the last 24 hours, officials in the small Himalayan nation said on Sunday, expressing fear that with further heavy rains expected, that number could rise.Eighteen people were also injured in the flooding over the past 24 hours, and two are missing, said Dan Bahadur Karki, a police spokesman. Dozens of people were evacuated to safety, including some pulled from the rubble of their damaged homes.Officials said the landslides had hampered vehicle traffic in most parts of a country where the terrain already makes…

Por aquel entonces, yo tenía treinta y tantos años, y un hijo tal vez fuera todo lo que pudiera tener. Como la religión forma parte de mi identidad, criaría a mi hijo como musulmán, por supuesto. Me dijo que podía aceptarlo e incluso apoyarlo.Durante ese tiempo, mostró un gran interés por mis prácticas religiosas y culturales; no como si pudiera dejarse influir, sino casi como un periodista con auténtica curiosidad. Durante el Ramadán, el mes de ayuno musulmán, ayunaba conmigo los días que estábamos juntos. Para él, se trataba de compartir una experiencia y aprender más sobre la parte de…

Israelis on Sunday marked nine months since the devastating Hamas-led attack of Oct. 7 and the start of the ensuing war in Gaza with a nationwide day of anti-government protests at a time that many here view as a pivotal juncture in the conflict.Primarily calling for a cease-fire deal with Hamas that would see hostages return from captivity and for new elections in Israel, protesters brought morning traffic to a standstill at several major intersections in cities and on highways across the country. By lunchtime, much of central Tel Aviv was blocked in one of the biggest protests in months.Some…

[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora]Hace poco, cuando estaba de vacaciones con su familia en un complejo turístico de Scottsdale, Arizona, Alexa Johnson tomó un envase que contenía algo que se veía como crema batida, se sentía como crema batida y producía el mismo sonido que la crema batida al salir de la lata. Pero no era crema batida. Era protector solar.Sus hijos, de 9 y 6 años, de inmediato extendieron las manos y luego se untaron cantidades generosas del producto en brazos y piernas.“Se veía ridículo”, relató Johnson, una consultora de marca de 37 años que vive en…

Officials in President Biden’s Treasury Department have proposed new actions aimed at crippling a fleet of aging oil tankers that are helping deliver Russian oil to buyers around the world in defiance of Western sanctions.Their effort is aimed at punishing Russia but it has stalled amid White House concerns over how it would affect energy prices ahead of the November election.In an attempt to drain Russia of money needed to continue fighting its war in Ukraine, the United States and its allies have imposed penalties and taken other novel steps to limit how much Moscow earns from selling oil abroad.…

For more Wimbledon stories, click here to add them to your feed.A hundred years from now, a tennis fan will ask the hologram floating in his ear about the great male athletes of the early 21st century.The hologram will add poetry to the trio known as the “Big Three”: Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. Before the advent of nuclear-powered strings and 200-mile-per-hour serves, they dominated the sport, winning some 70 Grand Slam titles. Then, almost as an afterthought, it mentions several other people who have won Earth’s most important tournament, before the tour expands to include the exoplanet…