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At the Olympic Village, cuts, styles and manicures are free. The benefits, the athletes say, are priceless.

A suspect confessed to a plot using explosives and other weapons to kill as many attendees as possible, security officials said. The singer’s three-concert Vienna run was canceled.

A nation synonymous with distance running was given a multimillion-dollar choice: Get serious about antidoping efforts, or get banned from world sports.

Large crowds greeted the former regional leader, who has lived in self-imposed exile since a failed 2017 independence bid. Despite a new amnesty law, he could still face arrest.

Paul, a social media influencer and boxer, usually promotes professional fighting. Now he’s in a partnership with U.S.A. Boxing, but his output in Paris has been minimal.

American officials allowed athletes to compete after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs so they could work undercover. Their global counterparts call that a breach of the rules.

It will never feel normal, athletes said, to have a stranger knock on your door and ask for a vial of your blood. Or some urine.

We embedded with an elusive rebel group in the Nuba Mountains to document its side of the country’s civil war.

Despite a declining birthrate that has alarmed the nation’s leaders, regulations in China prevent unmarried women from freezing their eggs.

The public’s reaction to the recent rioting has been resoundingly negative, suggesting that using the unrest to push anti-immigrant policies could backfire, at least in the short term.

The official warning came after a 7.1-magnitude temblor struck off the coast of southern Japan on Thursday.

The U.S. ambassador has criticized the handling of an attack on four instructors from an American college, but China’s foreign ministry called it an “isolated incident.”

Plus, China’s quest for Olympic gold shifts gears.

A far-right movement fueled by disinformation has brought fear and violence to cities across England and in Northern Ireland. That has in turn prompted counterprotests.

The wrestler Vinesh Phogat had a chance to become the first woman from India to win an Olympic gold, but she was disqualified when she missed her weight class by a few ounces.

The warning was in place for parts of the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku in the south after a quake of at least magnitude 6.9 was reported.

Extra police officers were mobilized across the country, but by Wednesday evening, there were no signs of large far-right protests.

There has long been a perception that the Hindu minority supports Sheikh Hasina, who resigned her post and fled the country after a popular uprising.

Antiracism protesters in Britain.

After two pandemic-disrupted Olympics, most teams haven’t given Covid a second thought in Paris. The one from the Netherlands is the exception.