Steven P. Jobs, who has cancer, made Apple one of the world’s most valuable companies. Timothy D. Cook will take over as chief executive.

Jobs Steps Down at Apple, Saying He Can’t Meet Duties

Libya’s complexities echo in the revolts in Bahrain, Syria and, most of all, Yemen, suggesting that the prolonged transition to a new order may prove as tumultuous as Egypt’s revolution was stirring.

After Arab Revolts, Reigns of Uncertainty

A ruling to make it easier for defendants to challenge eyewitness evidence could have an impact nationwide.

In New Jersey, Rules Are Changed on Witness IDs

No immediate changes to Apple products will be discernible with Mr. Jobs’s departure, but questions may arise in the future.

Without Its Master of Design, Apple Will Face Many Challenges

The Obama administration is considering a program to let millions of homeowners refinance at today’s rates.

U.S. May Back Refinance Plan for Mortgages

2010 census figures showed how far same-sex couples have dispersed, moving from traditional enclaves to farther-flung areas of the country.

New Numbers, and Geography, for Gay Couples

Some recent entrants into the field of online education offer grounds for both concern and hope.

Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path to a College Degree

Doctors and journalists reported evidence of fresh massacres by both sides around Tripoli, while the battle to establish full control of Colonel Qaddafi’s breached compound, Bab al-Aziziya, raged on.

Inside a Libyan Hospital, Proof of a Revolt’s Costs

Under new regulations from the National Labor Relations Board, companies must post notices about employees’ rights to unionize under federal law.

New Rules Seen as Aid to Efforts to Unionize

This summer, three movies, “The Tree of Life,” “The Future” and “The Help,” have provoked strong and interesting schisms among critics and ticket buyers.

Summer Cinema Worth Debating

Young country singers like Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Rodney Atkins are a stand-in for the continuing war for country’s masculine center.

Their Soft and Not-So-Rowdy Ways

The famously tight-lipped Dick Cheney reveals his “undisclosed locations” and disagreements he had with the president and administration officials in his memoir of the Bush years.

Leaving Regrets to Others, Cheney Speaks

The 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks is inspiring a host of events in almost every genre.

Artists Rise to an Occasion for Reflection

Tom Perrotta’s new novel examines how ordinary people react to extraordinary situations in the wake of a rapturelike event that has whisked millions of people off the face of the earth.

The Eerie Aftermath of a Mass Exit

The increasingly popular Afro-Punk Festival, after years celebrating an underground culture, was to embrace the big time this weekend before an impending storm forced organizers to cancel the Brooklyn festival.

Beats, Bikes, Skateboards and the Big Time

“Asco: Elite of the Obscure, a Retrospective, 1972-1987” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will showcase the work of a collective that once derided the establishment.

Chicano Pioneers

Market players often see financial innovations as a tool to manipulate the system and make money off less savvy traders, but in South Korea, they seem to have a different attitude.

In Korea, the Game of Trading Has Rules

Company boards are attracted to share buybacks when markets are down, but the purchase often ends up damaging the value of a stock.

The Negative Side of Share Buybacks

Corrections appearing in print on August 25, 2011.

Corrections: August 25

The Fung Global Institute is the latest effort in Asia to set up institutions designed to match the kind of analysis produced in the United States by groups like the Brookings Institution.

Economic Research Institute Created in Hong Kong

The violinist Jennifer Koh and the pianist Shai Wosner played the composer’s sonatas at Lincoln Center as part of the Little Night Music series.

Interpreting the Contrasts of Mozart

Jim Romenesko is retiring as a chronicler of the news business for more than a decade.

An Original Journalism Blogger Logs Out

Warren Buffett’s investment in Bank of America was unable to turn the market around in the face of rising jobless claims.

Shares Fall as Hopes Fade for New Action by Fed and Jobless Claims Rise

The Hawthorne Valley Farm Store, a Columbia County oasis for biodynamically raised foods, made eating organic cool well before Whole Foods took it mainstream.

Like a Bodega, but Nestled in the Hills

Last year, a Japanese spacecraft brought asteroid dust back to Earth for the first time, and now researchers who studied it have confirmed that most meteorites on Earth originate from asteroids like the one sampled.

Asteroid Dust Confirms Meteorites’ Origins

Lazar Mojsov was a Macedonian journalist, communist politician and diplomat from SFR Yugoslavia.

Lazar Mojsov, Macedonian politician (born 1920)

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On August 25, 2011, members of the drug cartel Los Zetas set a casino on fire in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, killing 52 people.

Fifty-two people are killed during an arson attack caused by members of the drug cartel Los Zetas.

August 25, 2011

Headlines from August 25, 2011

Jobs Steps Down at Apple, Saying He Can’t Meet Duties

After Arab Revolts, Reigns of Uncertainty

In New Jersey, Rules Are Changed on Witness IDs

Without Its Master of Design, Apple Will Face Many Challenges

U.S. May Back Refinance Plan for Mortgages

Billboard 200

Watch The Throne

Tailgates & Tanlines

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Notable Deaths

Historical Events

Historical Context for August 25, 2011