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A police officer died on Monday after being shot during a traffic stop in Queens, the police and city officials said. The suspected gunman, who was also wounded, was the first to fire his gun during the evening car stop in Far Rockaway, striking the officer, Jonathan Diller, in the…

Updated  Aug. 31, 2023, 5:06 a.m. ET Aug. 31, 2023, 5:06 a.m. ET A fire tore through a building in downtown Johannesburg early Thursday, killing at least 73 people and injuring dozens of others, city officials said. The authorities were still trying to determine what caused the blaze, which consumed…

In December, Ellicia Chiu and Cher Su had just a few boxes in tow when they moved into a walk-up apartment in New York’s Lower East Side neighborhood. Before their move, from Los Angeles, the two friends knew that they would need to furnish their new apartment with small kitchen…

To live in the Maldives is to live in one of two worlds. Either you belong to the capital — Malé, a micro-Manhattan in the Indian Ocean — or you are out in “the islands,” among the quietest and most remote villages this side of the Arctic tundra. It is…

Just minutes before the cargo ship Dali was set to glide under Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, the ship’s alarms began to blare. The lights went out. The engine halted. Even the rudder, which the crew uses to maneuver the vessel, was frozen. As a frantic effort to restore the…