Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England (BOE). The BoE said last month it expects inflation to reach about 3 percent in October, much of it due to the fall in the value of the pound since the Brexit vote. However, a …

Photo Jimmy Kimmel said: “I think it’s important to recognize that these brave men and women risk everything for no good reason at all. And I applaud them for that.” Credit ABC Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid …

Greg Baker | AFP | Getty Images Investors in Chinese online peer-to-peer lender Ezubao protest in Beijing on February 4, 2016. A Beijing court sentenced two men who directed a large Ponzi scheme to life imprisonment, state news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday. Peer-to-peer lender Ezubao shut down last year …

Justin Tallis | AFP | Getty Images A Union flag flies near the Elizabeth Tower, commonly referred to as Big Ben, at the Houses of Parliament in central London on March 29, 2017. It seems I’ve become a naive country bumpkin since leaving London six years ago. There I was …

Photo Bryan Greenberg and Mindy Kaling in Season 6 of “The Mindy Project.” Credit Jordin Althaus Mindy Kaling adjusts to married life in the final season of “The Mindy Project.” And documentaries take on the opioid epidemic, the 2008 financial crisis and the 1987 N.F.L. strike. What’s Streaming THE MINDY …

Patrick Pleul | AFP | Getty Images A measuring hose for emissions inspections in diesel engines in the exhaust tube of a Volkswagen Golf 2.0 TDI diesel car. The chief executive of German automaker Volkswagen says the current discussion regarding diesel cars is unjustified and that the diesel engine has …

Some prominent architects say demolishing the hotel would be just fine because they do not see much artistic or historic value in the structure, which has been abandoned since the 1990s, and has weeds and wildflowers growing in its mildewed crevices. Photo Sulu Sou, vice president of the New Macau …

Getty Images Jared Kushner sits in Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s car outside of Trump Tower, December 7, 2016 in New York City. Some of Donald Trump’s lawyers pushed in June for the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner to step down as a White House advisor, according to a report. That push …

I suppose this is the place to note that, since I am not a character in this work but an employee of The New York Times, I shall be referring to this play only as “A.” (The full title places an Anglo-Saxon adjective before the “A,” one commonly used on …

The character proved both durable and adaptable, turning up over the years on television and in film. And Mr. Wein became an early example of a change that would wake up the somewhat predictable world of comics, one that made the stories deeper and more ambitious. “For more than a …