Anti-tank fortifications line a beach on the Taiwanese island of Kinmen, several miles off China’s coast. Tensions with China have risen in recent months.
One of the two proposals for an “extremely large telescope” could involve construction on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, left, and Premier Li Qiang at a meeting in Beijing on Monday.
Comments made by France’s finance minister, Bruno LeMaire, about the legality of seizing Russian assets came a day after the U.S. Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, said that seizing the assets was a possibility.
Representative Mike Gallagher, Republican of Wisconsin, with Taiwan’s president-elect, Lai Ching-te, at the presidential palace in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, on Thursday.
Vote counting at a polling center in New Taipei City, Taiwan, on Saturday.
The Grand Hotel Taipei in Taipei, Taiwan, last month. The Democratic Progressive Party was formed in the hotel’s ballroom in 1986.
A rally in Tainan, Taiwan, for the Nationalist Party’s presidential candidate, Hou Yu-ih. The presidential race on Saturday is expected to be close.
An unfinished housing development in Shanghai. World Bank economists pointed to lingering weakness in real estate as evidence that China’s economy will continue to underperform this year.
Naval Base Ventura County in California. A Navy sailor at the Ventura County base has pleaded guilty to providing sensitive information to China.
Top row, from left: Sinead O’Connor, Daniel Ellsberg, Henry Kissinger, Rosalynn Carter, Harry Belafonte. Middle row, from left: Pervez Musharraf, Dianne Feinstein, Tina Turner, Sandra Day O’Connor. Bottom row, from left: Tony Bennett, Silvio Berlusconi, Glenda Jackson, Tori Bowie and Jim Brown.
A guide to 36 hours in Paris was — perhaps unsurprisingly — one of the most-read travel stories of 2023.
Celine Song, the South Korean-Canadian director of the film “Past Lives.”
Ice in eastern Greenland: The continent’s ice sheet has lost mass every year since 1998.
Zhongshan District in Taipei, Taiwan. Many voters on the island, especially those in their 20s and 30s, say they are weary of geopolitics and yearn for a campaign more focused on their needs at home.
A doctor tended to a malaria patient affected by flooding in a hospital in Sehwan, Pakistan, last year.
From left to right: Terry Gou, a presidential candidate; former President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan; and Hou Yu-ih, a presidential candidate of the opposition party Kuomintang, at a meeting open to journalists in Taiwan on Thursday.
President Vladimir V. Putin speaking via video conference at the G20 summit from Moscow, in a photo released by Russian state media.
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates, from left, Alexei Ekimov, Moungi Bawendi and Louis Brus.