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A BP oil platform in the North Sea, around 100 miles east of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Clock Is Ticking for Oil and Gas Industry in Britain

By STANLEY REED

After nearly 50 years of production, time is running out to fix and upgrade operations in the North Sea, industry executives and analysts say.

A drilling site in the Kara Sea, a Russian sector of the Arctic. After sanctions suspended deals in September, Rosneft began working on plans to drill without the cooperation of major Western oil companies.

The ‘Russification’ of Oil Exploration

By ANDREW E. KRAMER

Despite the imposition of sanctions against Russia by the United States and the European Union, Moscow has vowed that drilling will continue.

Thousands of demonstrators held mobile phones as they crossed the Danube on Tuesday in Budapest to protest a proposed tax on Internet use.

Proposed Internet Tax Draws Hungarians to Streets in Protest

By RICK LYMAN

Under a bill proposed by the government, data traffic would be taxed at the rate of about 62 cents a gigabyte. Critics say it seeks to limit access to independent sources of news.

Jyrki Katainen, the European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs.

E.U. Budget Clearance for France and Italy Comes With an Asterisk

By JAMES KANTER

A commissioner said that while the countries may not have to redraft their 2015 budgets, their filings would face tough scrutiny.

Tesco Accounting Scandal Draws Scrutiny of Serious Fraud Office in Britain

By JENNY ANDERSON

The agency has begun a criminal investigation into accounting irregularities at Tesco, adding to the woes of Britain’s largest retailer.

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Are You Catholic and Divorced? Share Your Experience

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

New York Times journalists covering religion would like to hear from Catholics who have been divorced, and, in particular, from those who have remarried.

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Maps of the Crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

A Malaysia Airlines flight with nearly 300 people aboard crashed in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border on July 17.

Clockwise from top left: Shazana Salleh, Martine de Schutter, Willem Witteveen, Cameron Dalziel, Tessa van der Sande, Andrei Anghel, Joep Lange and Jacqueline van Tongeren.

Victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

Among the 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 were a renowned AIDS researcher, a Dutch senator and an Australian novelist.

A 100-Year Legacy of World War I

World War I demolished empires and destroyed kings, kaisers and sultans. It introduced chemical weapons and aerial bombing. It brought women into the work force and hastened their legal right to vote.

A bride, 14, and her groom, 13, celebrated among their Gypsy community, which settled in Chudovo after the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl.

Between Big Cities, a Road Passes the Russia Left Behind

By ELLEN BARRY

Along the highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg — a 12-hour trip by car — one sees great neglected stretches of land that seem drawn backward in time.