EditorialEmergency responders at the scene of a crowd surge in which at least 146 people were killed and another 150 injured after they were crushed in a large Halloween crowd in Seoul, the city’s fire department said, in one of the deadliest peacetime accidents in South Korea’s recent history, on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialCivilians learn how to handle rifles at a classroom that in peacetime hosted a chess club in Lutsk, a city in northwest Ukraine, on Saturday, March 12, 2022. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
EditorialUkrainians Volodymyr Kotsyuba, left, and Vitali Slobodianiuk, both traveling back to their country to join the fighting, on a train from Prague to Przemysl in Poland, March 8, 2022. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times)
EditorialLebanese demonstrators gather outside the port of Lebanon's capital Beirut on the first anniversary of the blast that ravaged the port and the city, Beirut, Lebanon - 05 Aug 2021
EditorialA protester holds the flag of Lebanon on the first anniversary of the blast that ravaged the port and the city, in Lebanon's capital Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon - 05 Aug 2021
EditorialPeople at a pilgrimage site for ultra-Orthodox Jews the day after a deadly stampede in Mount Meron, Israel, April 30, 2021. (Amit Elkayam/The New York Times)
EditorialRecto: Minerva, or 'Arma' (Allegory of the Art of War), preliminary design for pl. 2 in the Schema, seu Speculum Principum (Skills of a Prince) series; Verso, above: Deer Hunt with Lassos; Below: Board Hunt with Shotguns, Jan van der Straet, called Str...
EditorialFrancis Ennis, 74, receives the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine from Dr. Ammara Hughes at the Bloomsbury Surgery in London on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialCol. Aryan Faizy, center, commander for the Kabul police’s Criminal Investigations Department, near the hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan on Jan. 20, 2020. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialFlower of agriculture in peacetime, counted token charged by order of the city of Brussels, Copper token. Obverse: man with hat watering bush within circumscription. Reverse: two men pruning a tree, at the foot of a tree coat of arms within a circumscr...
EditorialSmallsword, ca. 1650?60, probably Paris, French, probably Paris, Steel, gold, wood, copper alloy, L. 41 in. (104.1 cm); L. of blade 34 1/2 in. (87.5 cm), Swords, While it was typical in Europe from at least the Middle Ages for a nobleman to wear a swor...