Directing Planes, by Remote Control
By NICOLA CLARK
A small airport in northern Sweden is showcasing technology that many expect will eventually transform the way air traffic is managed worldwide.
Dan Barber’s long search for flavor at his farm is evident downtown, where each new ingredient might be the best example of its kind you’ve tasted.
A small airport in northern Sweden is showcasing technology that many expect will eventually transform the way air traffic is managed worldwide.
About 4,000 Christians left the Iraqi city of Mosul for Jordan in the last three months, forced out by Islamic State fighters.
In a country that has long been ill at ease with its hard-living son, Thomas’s granddaughter is trying to refocus public attention on the poet’s work.
Mexico is planning to do something it has not attempted in decades and never on its modern census: ask people if they consider themselves black.
Photographs of Broad Channel, an island in Jamaica Bay in Queens.
A Brazilian chef who passed up the glamour of São Paulo is helping change his country’s cuisine with the help of flavors from the rain forest.
Resentment and fear have swept Calais, France, in the last year amid a new wave of migrants hoping to cross illegally to Britain, which they see as a better place than France to start a new life.
Hekkie Budler is preparing to defend the two belts he holds in the minimumweight division, the lightest sanctioned classification in boxing.
Can China continue its torrid pace of economic growth for decades to come? The long arc of history suggests not, according to a paper by Harvard’s Lant Pritchett and Lawrence Summers.
The white gravel roads in the vineyards and hills of Tuscany inspired L’Eroica, a vintage bicycle race that has grown to more than 5,000 participants.
A duplex in the south tower of the River House, the opulent Art Deco enclave perched above the East River, is poised to enter the market at $14.75 million.
Assigned by a record label to take publicity shots, Mr. Wertheimer photographed rock ‘n’ roll’s earliest superstar in his earliest days.
An exhibition in New York, will display works by Picasso that were inspired by Jacqueline Roque, with whom he lived from 1954 until his death in 1973.
American Ballet Theater opened its fall season on Wednesday with a gala triple bill by young or youngish choreographers.
“Grand Design,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presents 19 large Renaissance tapestries designed by Pieter Coecke van Aelst.
“Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, reappraises Strand as a modernist turned humanist as well as a cinephile.
Once reluctant to accept the virtual world, institutions are now using interactivity, 3-D imaging and “augmented reality” in displays.
There are several ways to organize your exhibition-hopping this season.
The new restaurant features soup dumplings, or xiao long bao, that are near perfect.
Colin Bailey left his post at the Frick Collection to help the the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco revamp their exhibits — and maybe their mission.
The new museum designed by Frank Gehry combines technology, science and art to promote discovery of nature in the country.
The Jewish Museum highlights Helena Rubinstein, a pioneer of women’s cosmetics, whose taste reflected a combination of chutzpah and creativity.
Mark Mothersbaugh of the influential band Devo will have his first major solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.
The Museum of Modern Art’s coming show will look at the ways design has played with music, from posters to electronic delivery systems.
This Gulf Coast resort city has a vibrant downtown and high-end shops but also lush wetlands and white-sand beaches.
Mr. Burri was a globe-trotting photographer who documented figures like Pablo Picasso and Che Guevara, as well as urban scenes and war.
Pitcher Luther Taylor starred at a school for the deaf in the Kansas City metropolitan area before helping the Giants reach the 1905 World Series.
Many established spas and retreats are retooling their offerings to attract the same target: wealthy, successful and highly stressed-out executives.
Described as a “ranch burger,” the house in Columbia County was remade to order.
Dan Bussey has tracked down 17,000 varieties dating from Colonial times, the better to guarantee a world way beyond Red Delicious.
A smallish city of around 80,000, Danbury, Conn., just across from the New York border, is less expensive than most surrounding towns and far more diverse.
A black-tie benefit draws out celebrities like Sofia Vergara, Ryan Reynolds with Blake Lively and Kris Jenner on Monday night.
In Brooklyn, real-life good witches are concocting friendly brews for public consumption.
Mr. Bradlee, a quintessential newspaper editor, supervised The Washington Post’s exposure of the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon.
From Diane Lane to Nicki Minaj, the designer’s dresses appealed to a range of actresses and entertainers.
At a time when marijuana laws are loosening in the United States, High Times magazine is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a hefty book.
Mr. de la Renta dressed the wives of American presidents and socialites, but it was Hollywood glitz that defined him for a new age and a new customer.
The Metropolitan Opera’s first performance of “The Death of Klinghoffer” was disrupted twice, but both protesters were ushered out.
Four days had passed since their overcrowded migrant boat had capsized in the Mediterranean, after being rammed in an apparent quarrel between smugglers. The Palestinians were now weak and hallucinating.
A way of life is eroding as small towns hemorrhage younger residents, a potent but unpredictable undercurrent in a closely fought Senate race.
Images of major league baseball in Kansas City, which included the Athletics, who moved to Oakland, and the expansion Royals, who won a World Series in 1985.
The extent to which video games have become part of mainstream culture in South Korea may be a sign of things to come in the West.
After 20 years’ warning of an impending rent increase, there is 11th-hour resistance to small shops’ being pushed from historic districts by an inundation of international brands.
Grand ambitions to restore the country’s run-down train services to their former glory have been impeded by Islamic State’s advances.
The small Greek Orthodox church that stood as a reprieve from the city’s furious financial nerve center was crushed as the World Trade Center collapsed on Sept. 11.
On the college fishing circuit, which is not under the N.C.A.A. umbrella, anglers can compete alongside professionals and win prize money without consequences like a challenge to eligibility.
On this island in the Venice Lagoon, glassmaking has been revered by doges and tourists alike.
Def Jam celebrated 30 years in the hip-hop business on Thursday, with a concert at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Puppetworks theater in Brooklyn was founded in 1991 by Nicolas Coppola, a lifelong puppeteer. It has been a neighborhood institution ever since.
Alexander Wang introduced his athletic-fashion collaboration with H&M in Washington Heights.
Mary Carillo’s work as a sports analyst and reporter has taken her around the world, but New York still beckons her.
Lyndon B. Johnson drew a larger percentage of African-Americans to the polls than anyone else before the Obama era.
“Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art showcases Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger and one man’s generosity.
In cosplay (short for costume play), fans dress up as comic book, movie and anime characters. Enthusiasts gathered in Manhattan last weekend for New York Comic Con.
“Goya: Order and Disorder,” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, offers the broadest view of this artist’s career in America in more than two decades.
“Marisol: Sculptures and Works on Paper,” at El Museo del Barrio, is the artist’s first solo exhibition at a New York City museum.
Paet Rio in Elmhurst, Queens, isn’t shy about sharing Thai cuisine’s often scorching splendor.
North Brother Island once housed city residents under quarantine, including Typhoid Mary, and later World War II veterans, but it was abandoned in 1963.
The design of the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership in Kalamazoo, Mich., reflects the ideals behind the building’s creation.
From Sunset Park to Coney Island in Brooklyn, D trains travel through one of the greatest concentrations of public artwork in the subway system.
Actually, Doris Duke did. But her Mughal Suite, now on view, has about 1,001 delights.
Karl Lagerfeld, Anna Wintour and Gisele Bündchen screen Chanel No. 5 film by Baz Luhrmann.
The Hudson Heights section of Washington Heights offers more affordable housing options, much of it prewar, than other parts of Manhattan.
An artist prepares her house in New Orleans for its next adventure: the end of the world.
The eager crowd at a “Fury” screening is left to wonder if Brad Pitt is underappreciated.
Justin Fornal, a.k.a. Baron Ambrosia, attempts to swim the Cooper River along Camden, N.J., in his quest to highlight urban and environmental renewal for the crime-ridden city.
Competition from synthetic fibers has damaged earnings for the country’s wool exporters, and farmers are retooling their operations in response.
With the strangely shaped “pumpkinstein,” a California farmer found a way to carve himself a piece of the $7 billion in business Halloween now generates.
The latest trend in Rust Belt Catholicism, the Mass mob, is bringing thousands of suburban Catholics to visit the struggling urban churches of their parents and grandparents.
Finding himself in a country he’d never given much thought, the author manages to hurtle down slopes, go on a picturesque “tramp” and hit some pubs — all in a few days.
Mr. Metzker, who experimented with photographic forms for six decades, is perhaps best known for his cityscapes and landscapes.
A charter school training program reflects the belief that teachers, like doctors, need to practice repeatedly with experienced supervisors before they can take the reins in classes of their own.
The decision to help families treat patients at home signifies a significant shift in the struggle against the rampaging disease.
“Aaron Siskind: Another Photographic Reality,” a book billed as the first complete retrospective of his work, is being released this fall.
A child’s room is like a gallery for expressing creativity. (Well, like a gallery with clothes all over the floor.)
At some colonies, you can soak up the creative atmosphere as a visitor, not a resident.
Contrary to the prevailing trend of playing games on small personal devices, Killer Queen is a giant machine, with 10 joysticks.
A restoration expert in Allentown, Pa., has only one customer: Nicola Bulgari, the Italian jewelry magnate, whose collection focuses on workaday prewar American models.
To create playgrounds for everyone, Monstrum’s designers let their imaginations run wild.
Born and raised in Guatemala, Dr. Daniel Sanchez navigated a summer of big changes and fast learning as a first-year resident at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center in Brooklyn.
Good design matters to Amanda Dameron, the editor in chief of Dwell, but no one in her home goes around screaming, ‘Don’t touch.’
Snowdonia, on 32 Street, caters to the growing population of creative types who have moved to the area known in certain circles as Actoria.
In a country devastated by a terrible disease, what to do when the task is caring for an hours-old baby whose mother might have died of Ebola?
“Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,” at the Museum of Modern Art, presents about 100 painted-paper works, produced during a difficult era for the artist.
The Guggenheim’s “Zero: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-60s” is an alternately dazzling and thin walk-in history lesson about the three Zero artists of postwar Germany.
The unveiling of Yulman Stadium, and the departure from the Superdome, has brought out an enthusiasm that has not been associated with the university’s once-proud football program in decades.
The Arepa Lady of Jackson Heights, Queens, has expanded from her street cart to a small restaurant two blocks away.
Economic anxiety amid a dwindling oil and gas industry is raising difficult questions about the future. It is also shaping a Senate race in which a Democrat is seeking re-election in a state long dominated by Republicans.
Prewar hot rods, greaser clothes and beach races set in 1950s-period-correct Wildwood, N.J., made a motorsports event feel like a step back in time.
Transforming an awkward corner lot into a vibrant rain garden.
A benefit for the National Theater draws a sparkling crowd to a new Broadway play.
The blueprint for rebuilding the house followed the post-Sandy building codes in clever and thrifty ways.
Residents, many of whom are Brooklyn transplants, see their town as an extension of the cultured, community-involved lifestyle they knew in New York.
Health workers tend to people sickened by Ebola and those quarantined while they wait to learn if they have the virus.
For nine days, waves of pro-democracy protests engulfed Hong Kong, swelling at times to tens of thousands of people and raising tensions with Beijing.
The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975. The latest image in the series is published here for the first time.
Few collegians work as hard as the U.S. Military Academy’s 786 female cadets.
A journey through the state, featuring Jimmy Carter, Civil War re-enactors and newborn Cabbage Patch Kids.
A panoramic view of the progress at the new World Trade Center site exactly 13 years after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Scenes of sorrow and violence in a Missouri town after an unarmed black teenager was shot by a police officer.
The damage to Gaza’s infrastructure from the current conflict is already more severe than the destruction caused by either of the last two Gaza wars.
The Times asked firefighters to submit their first fire experiences on City Room. Read a selection of those stories.
The daily tally of rocket attacks, airstrikes and deaths in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The reporter Damien Cave and the photographer Todd Heisler traveled up Interstate 35, from Laredo, Tex., to Duluth, Minn., chronicling how the middle of America is being changed by immigration.
World War I destroyed kings, kaisers, czars and sultans; it demolished empires; it introduced chemical weapons; it brought millions of women into the work force.
Despite a period of rising incomes, a tide of economic discontent helped make Narendra Modi the prime minister-elect.
Highlights from a map of N.B.A. fandom based on Facebook “likes.”
A 32,000-ton arch that will end up costing $1.5 billion is being built in Chernobyl, Ukraine, to all but eliminate the risk of further contamination at the site of the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion.
Fairgoers share memories of family outings and moments of inspiration at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and then vanished without a trace.
Runners, spectators and volunteers who were at the finish line of the Boston Marathon when the bombs exploded reflect on how their lives have been affected. Here are their stories of transformation.
Nelson Mandela’s death spurred an international outpouring of praise, remembrance and celebration.
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer the questions to see your personal dialect map.
Typhoon Haiyan, which cut a destructive path across the Philippines, is believed by some climatologists to be the strongest storm to ever make landfall.
Voters elected Bill de Blasio, but New York has always been a city of unofficial mayors.
Your guide to the year’s most important meal, with our best recipes, videos, techniques and tricks.
The International Herald Tribune, the global edition of The New York Times, has become The International New York Times. A look at its journey.
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.
For the first time in over a decade, New York City will vote in a new mayor. A look back at the 2013 primary campaign for mayor in New York City, in photographs.
More than 6.5 million Syrians have been displaced by the war, according to the United Nations. The New York Times visited the homes of four of them to hear their stories.
Uncertainty about how an outside attack could affect Syria’s civil war is one of the factors leading to disagreement among Western countries about how to respond.
In a five-part series of reports on young, under-the-radar fashion designers we visit each at a different stage in the process as they prepare for New York Fashion Week.
At age 55, the jockey Russell Baze is still making all the right moves
in a dangerous sport.
More than 50 ways to make use of the things you’re most likely to find in a market or your C.S.A. basket.
New York may be noisier than ever, but pockets of peace exist – if you know where to look. Here is a selection from readers.
Browse archival photographs, video and articles chronicling the city’s quest for quiet.
Revel in the season with a pie (or a tart, or a cobbler). Here are 20 recipes to carry you through the warm months.
Lynda Obst, Mike Vollman, Erik Feig and others help The Times make the next big tent-pole movie.
Times coverage from the late 1960s and the 1970s shows the South Bronx as a crumbling, desolate and dangerous place. Ángel Franco, a Times photographer, revisited neighborhoods featured in that coverage to see how the view has changed.
The mean streets of the borough that rappers like the Notorious B.I.G. crowed about are now hipster havens, where cupcakes and organic kale rule.
A sequence revisiting how Chicago’s Nate Robinson, one of the best at teardrop shots, scored over the Nets’ Brook Lopez in a game at the end of the season.
About 120,000 Syrians are calling the tents and trailers of the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan home, at least for the foreseeable future.
On April 15, the first of two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Here are the stories of the runners, spectators and others seen in this image.
One suspect in the Boston bombings is dead and the second was taken into custody Friday night.
Fred R. Conrad, a New York Times photographer, set up a studio at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show this week and invited Best of Breed winners to pose.
New York City was a vastly different place when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg gave his first State of the City address in 2002, and his focus has shifted on various issues.
Ray Lewis, Randy Moss and others with Super Bowl experience share the advice they have given their teammates.
European Union officials have struggled to turn things around — debating new treaties, shoring up banks, securing more funding. The people of Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Latvia have dealt with economic troubles in various ways.
Forty-two memorable front pages from the past year, picked by editors on the Times news desk who oversee the content, design and production of Page 1.
Mr. Sulzberger shaped the destiny of The New York Times for 34 years as its publisher and as chairman and chief executive of its parent company.
A day-by-day recap of the conventions in Tampa, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C.
Emotional victories, stunning defeats and fierce competition from the Olympic Games.
See the most prominent vocal producer in the music industry, Kuk Harrell, in action, and then listen along with him as members of the girl group Calvillo perform a part of their song “Right Now.”
A selection of Tony Award nominees, including Josh Young from “Jesus Christ Superstar,” perform songs and scenes from this year’s shows.
What has happened after 2,400 technology, Internet and telecom I.P.O.’s.
Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic, demonstrates and discusses the role of a conductor.
The players on the Carroll Academy girls basketball team have little experience with organized sports and myriad troubles outside of school.
A series profiling people who are functioning normally despite severe mental illness and have chosen to speak out about their struggles.
Examining the worldwide struggle to find answers about Alzheimer’s disease.
Photos from Turkey, China, India and the United States.
Listen to New York Times editors, critics and reporters discuss the day’s news and features.