A closed McDonald’s restaurant in Nikko, Japan, on Friday.

St. Petersburg this month. Russia is taking a systemic approach to change the way its domestic internet functions, according to civil society groups, researchers and companies that have been affected.

A cellphone tower in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, this month.

Aleksei A. Navalny speaking in 2013 during his campaign to become mayor of Moscow.

A performance at a festival in Vienna conducted by Teodor Currentzis, left, was canceled after the Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv, right, raised concerns about his ties to Russia.

Waves hitting the shore in Porthleven, England, on Sunday.

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.

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.”

The Tanger-Med container port near Tangier, Morocco, has become a hub for transshipments of goods to Russia.

Men walk past the rubble of a destroyed building in Gaza, where the conflict with Israel has led to another communications blackout.

Ice in eastern Greenland: The continent’s ice sheet has lost mass every year since 1998.

A doctor tended to a malaria patient affected by flooding in a hospital in Sehwan, Pakistan, last year.

Dr. Tiffani Jenae Johnson, a pediatric emergency physician and professor at UC Davis Children’s Hospital in California, has been a leader in raising awareness within the medical community about inequities in care and outcomes for children.