Freed after 14 months, Eli Sharabi learned that his family didn’t survive the Oct. 7 attacks. “Hostage” is testimony to his suffering and his hope.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/books/review/eli-sharabi-hostage.html
Sébastien Lecornu stepped down less than 24 hours after he had formed his cabinet.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/world/europe/france-lecornu-resigns-macron.html
The surprise resignation of Sébastien Lecornu after less than a month in office intensified concerns that France would be unable to tackle its enormous debt pile.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/business/france-economy-markets-politics.html
The explorer’s journey to Antarctica was likely doomed before it began.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/science/shackleton-endurance-antarctica.html
The government reviews show the country’s challenge as U.S. support wanes and Kyiv pivots to production from a domestic arms industry with a long history of corruption.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/world/europe/ukraine-war-weapons-defense-contracts-payments.html
One man has appealed his conviction in a case in which a Frenchman drugged his wife and invited scores of men to rape her.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/gisele-pelicot-rape-appeal-trial-france.html
The Frenchwoman who became a feminist icon will confront one of the men convicted after her husband drugged her and invited them to rape her over nearly 10 years.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/france-gisele-pelicot-rape-trial-appeal-explained.html
Dominique Pelicot was convicted of drugging and raping his wife, Gisèle Pelicot, and of inviting dozens of men to rape her. Here is how the events unfolded.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/world/europe/pelicot-trial-timeline.html
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the prize for research showing how the body regulates its immune responses.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/health/nobel-prize-medicine-physiology.html
Nobels are awarded in only three scientific categories, but other awards honor researchers across different fields.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/science/awards-prizes-non-nobels.html
Ian Roberts rose through the ranks of American education with talent, charm and a riveting back story. He was also hiding a shocking secret.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/us/des-moines-iowa-superintendent-ian-roberts-immigration-ice.html
Years ago, progressives defeated a plan to build an Amazon warehouse in Queens. Now a new kind of development is gaining their support.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/nyregion/amazon-rezoning-queens.html
The ram air turbine, used when electrical power or hydraulic pressure fails, was deployed during an Air India flight that landed safely over the weekend. The same system had been activated during a flight that crashed in June.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/world/asia/air-india-boeing-planes.html
Prediction markets like Kalshi, once known for offering wagers on elections, are now in the multibillion-dollar sports betting business and outside the reach of state regulations and taxes.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/upshot/sports-betting-prediction-markets.html
The snowfall buried tents and reduced visibility. The local authorities said that they were in contact with the hikers and that rescue efforts were underway.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/world/asia/everest-hikers-trapped-snowstorm.html
Cory Doctorow’s new book looks to offer comfort, and solutions, to the inescapable feeling that digital platforms have gotten worse.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/books/review/cory-doctorow-enshittification.html
To see a way out of our destructive spiral we should look to the innovation of the 1920s.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/opinion/politics/how-to-save-the-american-experiment.html
Republicans’ exploitation of government’s closure is the tell that they prefer it this way.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/opinion/shutdown-republicans-trump-democrats.html
Weeks after a $100 billion agreement to use computer chips from Nvidia, OpenAI has signed a similar deal with a rival chipmaker.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/technology/openai-amd-chips.html
A prolific writer and keen observer, she sold millions of copies of her juicy, sometimes racy “Rutshire Chronicles” series.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/books/jilly-cooper-dead.html