USA Update

A group of Australians are believed to be among seven tourists in hospital in Fiji after a suspected mass alcohol poisoning.

Jaylen Adams and Xavier Cooks were the star attractions as the Sydney Kings beat the resurgent Brisbane Bullets in the NBL.

The Perth Scorchers will bowl first in the BBL opener, with a fan favourite getting a surprise promotion up the order. SEE THE LINE-UP

Jasprit Bumrah is the only Indian player to hold up his end of the bargain the whole way through this series, writes Jackson Barrett.

WA Police are searching for 20 stolen firearms, reported missing after a burglary in WA’s south earlier this month.

New Zealand has taken control of the third Test against England in Hamilton after dismissing the visitors for just 143.

Ricardo Martinez, an 11th grader, was in his high school lunchroom in April when a mass brawl erupted. He watched, horrified, as a dozen teenage boys rampaged through the cafeteria, pummeling and kicking one another, overturning tables and chairs. Other students jeered and jostled to film the fight on their phones. “It was like a […]

Jeff Roth, the caretaker of the morgue, The New York Times’s clippings and photo archive, was looking through the file of Igor Stravinsky, the Russian composer, this year when he discovered a curious black-and-white photo. In it, Stravinsky was on the right side of the image, holding a pen over an unidentified document; the left […]

In the two months leading up to Election Day, Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado’s schedule was booked solid, but not with the typical ribbon cuttings associated with the somewhat anonymous job of being New York’s No. 2. Instead, Mr. Delgado, a former congressman, attended almost 50 campaign events, including in battleground districts that Democrats were relying […]

Date Night Dear Diary: My husband and I were on the C. It was a weeknight, long past rush hour. There were only four other passengers on the car. We sat in the middle. At the end of the bench, a man was leaning against the railing. I barely glanced at him as my husband […]