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Russian journalists learned that a government office inadvertently made thousands of sensitive complaints viewable online, including accounts of abuse and coercion in the military.

In China, trafficking marijuana is punishable by death. But in the United States, it has become a lucrative sideline for some favored sons of the motherland.

The repatriation of the Cambodian soldiers captured in July comes on the heels of a 72-hour cease-fire that could end months of border skirmishes.

The Republican served for almost three decades in Congress. He said he was withdrawing from public life after the diagnosis.

Protests have erupted in Aceh Province on the northern tip of Sumatra island, where anger and frustration are mounting over what many see as inadequate relief efforts by a distracted government.

The actress, who died this week at 91, was an icon of 1960s cinema. She was also a hero to the French far right.

Tatiana Schlossberg, who died on Tuesday, was the granddaughter of John F. Kennedy. But as a journalist, her first editor remembers, she insisted on putting in the work.

These were some of the common threads connecting outfits worn by different people at different times in different places this year.

A.I. has made it easy to put words in people’s mouths, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain has become a favorite target. The motive, experts say, is not political but financial.