August 7, 2011

Mexican and U.S. officials said that new efforts have been designed to get around Mexican laws that prohibit foreign military and police from operating on its soil.

The Syrian military defied growing condemnation and deployed tanks in the restive Deir al-Zour, killing dozens, activists said.

Mr. Carey helped rescue New York from the brink of financial collapse in the 1970s and tamed a culture of ever-growing spending.

The European Central Bank said it would intervene in bond markets; Group of 7 finance officials said they would take “all necessary measures” to support stability.

For a second year, the Edgar Allan Poe House in Baltimore has lost its city funding and may have to close.

Three years after its Broadway run ended, the musical “Rent” is returning to New York, this time Off Broadway.

In “House of Holes: A Book of Raunch” Nicholson Baker invokes an equal-opportunity playland where anybody can seemingly fulfill any sexual daydream.

Jose Reyes left Sunday’s game against the Braves with a stiff hamstring and Daniel Murphy was helped off with an injured knee. Then Chipper Jones singled in the winning run for Atlanta in the ninth.

Cate Blanchett, Richard Roxburgh and Hugo Weaving star in the Sydney Theater Company revival of “Uncle Vanya” at the Kennedy Center in Washington.

“Shelebration!,” a concert tribute to Shel Silverstein at SummerStage, pulled together some of the strands of the songwriter-author-illustrator’s diverse career.

Policy makers exhausted their resources in the last recession and, in a weaker economy, would have few options the next time.

A division of the News Corporation has twice come under investigations in the United States, but neither went anywhere.