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Missiles, tanks and other heavy weaponry rolled through Moscow’s Red Square in the annual Victory Day parade, reviving a tradition of the Soviet era.

Frustrated United Nations officials all but demanded that the nation end barriers to supplies and workers.

The television station affiliated with the top Sunni lawmaker’s party was forced off the air in a sign that pro-government forces were collapsing.

Zimbabwe’s army distanced itself from post-election violence, state media reported ahead of a visit by regional mediator President Thabo Mbeki.

There were talks between party leaders and Senator Barack Obama as he made a public return to the Capitol.

The Pentagon canceled the assignment of Maj. Gen. Jay W. Hood to Pakistan after the Pakistani media excoriated him for his previous job as commander of Guantánamo Bay.

Hezbollah’s leader said the government had threatened to shut down the group’s telephone network, and the TV station of a Sunni leader’s party went off the air.

Critics say that the process the city uses to determine when to build new schools is flawed, preventing construction from keeping pace with residential development.

Tenant advocates say they’ve begun to see a pattern of harassment of tenants in rent-controlled apartments.

Senator Richard C. Shelby’s links to the mortgage industry are raising questions because of his role in deciding the fate of a bill to help struggling homeowners.

By analyzing thousands of layers sediment in a core drilled from the bottom of a lake, a team of scientists has reconstructed the climate of northern Africa.

Vito J. Fossella declined to address questions about his political future after being arrested for drunken driving and acknowledging fathering a daughter in an extramarital affair.

Despite setbacks, three soccer players who left Cuba’s under-23 men’s soccer team almost two months ago do not seem discouraged as they try to survive in America, both on and off the field.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel said Thursday that the contributions he had taken from Long Island businessman Morris Talansky were legitimate campaign funds, not bribes.

North Korea has turned over 18,000 pages of documents related to its plutonium program, ahead of an agreement meant to begin the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

The general manager of a Utah mine withheld information that could have prevented a disaster, the chairman of a Congressional investigation said.

Several highly selective colleges are offering admission to an unusually large number of students from their wait lists, which will probably lead others to do the same.

The soundtrack to a firefight in Afghanistan was inadvertently left on an answering machine in Oregon.

Over on our sister blog, The Pour, Eric Asimov writes a stirring elegy for Chinatown's great, departed Mei Lai Wah Coffee House and its memorable pork buns.

The prices of rice, wheat, soybeans and several other foods have come down recently, a development that could ease some of the panic in global food markets.