HONG KONG Student-led protests for democratic reforms in Hong Kong shrank today but a few hundred demonstrators remained camped out in the streets, vowing to keep up the pressure until the government responds to their demands. Schools reopened and civil servants returned to work this morning after protesters cleared the area outside the city’s government […]

STOCKHOLM U.S.-British scientist John O’Keefe and Norwegian scientists May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser won the Nobel Prize in medicine today for discovering the “inner GPS” that helps the brain navigate through the world. Their findings in rats — and research suggests that humans have the same system in their brains — represented a “paradigm shift” […]

BEIRUT In his high-rise office in Beirut, Sandro Saade carefully chews a merlot grape from a vineyard hundreds of miles away in war-ravaged Syria, trying to determine if it is ripe enough to order the start of the harvest. It’s too dangerous for him to travel to the vineyards of Domaine de Bargylus, which is […]