Federal agents revived the hunt for the remains of the Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa, bringing excavation equipment to a field in Oakland Township, north of Detroit.    

With help from a University of Chicago group, a craft beer maker has been working for more than year to replicate a 5,000-year-old Sumerian beer.    

With help from a University of Chicago group, a craft beer maker has been working for more than year to replicate a 5,000-year-old Sumerian beer.    

Germany commemorated the 60th anniversary of an uprising by East Germans against Soviet rule, seeking a higher pedestal for the little-known revolt.    

Though Darnell Nurse’s family gravitated to football and basketball, he was encouraged to play hockey because his parents thought it was safer than football. Now, he is expected to be selected in the first round of the N.H.L. draft.    

The justices ruled on Monday that brand-name drug makers could face antitrust charges for paying generic competitors to keep cheaper copies of a drug off the market.    

A growing number of Chinese officials have found themselves ensnared by extortion plots that leverage the public’s disgust for wayward behavior.    

Instead of focusing on the economy, as an internal party document suggested, House Republicans are pushing the most restrictive abortion bill to come to a vote in a decade.    

A company plans to excavate a landfill in the New Mexico desert where Atari is rumored to have dumped millions of copies of the video game E.T. after it flopped in 1983.    

A company plans to excavate a landfill in the New Mexico desert where Atari is rumored to have dumped millions of copies of the video game E.T. after it flopped in 1983.    

The bombing near the northern city of Aleppo appeared to be part of an effort by the Syrian insurgency to regain momentum after a series of defeats.    

The mountain town of Bogor is on the front line of a national debate about religious freedom, amid an increase in discrimination and violent attacks against minority Christians and Islamic sects.    

The portable chargers for wireless devices will rotate among areas in New York City until October.    

At a news conference broadcast live on Iranian state television, a man called on Iran’s president-elect, Hassan Rowhani, not to forget the detained opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi.    

Recent developments in health and science news. This week: bending light, disappearing icebergs and emoting figurines.    

The striker for the United States national soccer team and Tottenham Hotspur spoke with Jack Bell of The Times.    

Google sought permission to publish more granular data on national security requests than Facebook or Microsoft published, and said anything less didn’t provide enough transparency.    

Tim Hsia and Jared Sperli write that the next few decades will be dominated by advancements in software and hardware (cyber and robotics, including drones) just as the last decade was dominated by counterinsurgency.    

A survey of children with food allergies showed that a third of them reported being bullied with threatening behavior.    

General Manager Brian Cashman said on Monday that Mark Teixeira’s right wrist still hurt and that it would be hard to count on Kevin Youkilis’s return this season.