In travel news this week: the world’s most expensive rice, trouble at Rome’s Trevi Fountain, plus how the hotel bathroom door situation has gotten out of hand.

The message Kendall Coyne Schofield posted on her social media was not terribly difficult to decipher. A framed blackboard propped in front of Schofield’s two dogs, Penny and Blue, spelled out the ...

• First gold medal: Switzerland’s Franjo von Allmen won the men’s downhill to win Milan Cortina’s first gold. Italians Giovanni Franzoni and Dominik Paris won silver and bronze, respectively.

Norway’s royal family were battling scandals on multiple fronts this week, with charities moving to cut or review ties to the Crown Princess for her past contact with the late sex offender Jeffrey ...

The White House has belatedly backed down from a racist video shared on President Donald Trump’s social media feed after blowback from Republicans.

• Let the games begin: Italian President Sergio Mattarella declared the 2026 Winter Olympics open. Two cauldrons — one in Milan and one in Cortina — have been lit, marking a first in the Winter Games’ ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that the United States wants a peace settlement between Ukraine and Russia by early summer, despite repeated rounds of talks failing to reach a ...

The recent Department of Justice release sheds light on multiple awkward relationships Jeffrey Epstein had with business titans, billionaires, royals, government officials — in the US and abroad — and ...

A jury found that Uber must pay $8.5 million to a woman who said one of its drivers raped her. The decision could set the stage for payments to thousands of other passengers who filed similar claims ...

Ron Vachris does not fit the profile of a typical risk-taking executive. Vachris started at Costco as a forklift driver in 1982 while he attended community college. He went on to manage Costco’s ...

France and Canada have opened consulates in Greenland’s capital Nuuk on Friday, in a solid show of support for the ...

The sell-off in tech stocks screeched to a halt Friday as investors stepped in to buy the dip: The Dow soared 1,207 points, ...