Shailesh Andrade | Reuters The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) logo is seen at the BSE building in Mumbai, India, January 25, 2017. India is one of the best performing stock markets in Asia so far this year; both the 30-share BSE Sensex and 50-share NSE Nifty have gained over 15 …

Photo Randall Scotting and Heather Buck in LoftOpera’s production of Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater” at the Muse in Brooklyn. Credit Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times The pocket opera companies that have sprung up around New York in recent years fulfill a great service in exploring unusual material. But that …

Getty Images Predictive analytics can help the operations including those of wind farms, freeing up employees for more productive activities, says CEO of Uptake Technologies, Brad Keywell. “I think the fourth industrial revolution of major industries is not about getting rid of people and it’s not about machines taking over, …

In “Lily Pond: Four Years With a Family of Beavers” (1989), she described beavers’ sociable dam-building, kit-rearing and playful shoving matches, observed in Harriman State Park in Rockland County, N.Y. Photo Ms. Ryden wrote two dozen books on wildlife, including “America’s Last Wild Horses” (1970). Credit Lyons Press “Like Japanese …

“Quickly, quickly, now,” a servant in breeches and waistcoat urged, shooing the audience down a slope of lawn and onto a curving lamplit path to the duel. “Who lives, who dies — we’ll all find out!” Dusk had fallen in the nearly two hours we’d spent chasing a roving production …

Photo Declan Conlon in “My Eyes Went Dark.” Credit Carol Rosegg On July 2, 2002, a passenger jet collided in midair with a cargo plane over Germany, killing 71 people. It was a mistake caused by technical issues and a slow response from the sole air traffic controller. Stricken by …

Ricardo Botelho | Brazil Photo Press | LatinContent | Getty Images Brazilian President Michel Temer, pictured on June 26, has been charged by the country’s top prosecutor of accepting bribes. Brazil’s top federal prosecutor charged President Michel Temer on Monday with accepting bribes, the first of what is expected to …

Partly, yeah. If I was a politician and was seriously trying to do that, I’d have to really drill down and into data and really think it through. But me, I’m playing with it. I’m very aware of a kind of aesthetic of popularity: I’m interested in the kind of …

Photo Evan Ruggiero, left, and Rene Ruiz in “Bastard Jones” at the Cell Theater. Credit Carol Rosegg “Bastard Jones” opens with our hero, Tom Jones, in a close encounter of the sexual kind with a randy maid. When they emerge from behind a sheet, happily sated, she helps him screw …

Brooks Kraft LLC | Corbis | Getty Images A patient is monitored in an examination room inside the Clinical Decision Unit at Kaiser Permanente’s Capitol Hill Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Senate Republicans released their bill, called the “Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017” last week. On Monday, they released …