Andrei Makhonin | Contributor A branch of Otkritie Bank, one of Russia’s biggest private lenders, in central Moscow. Some of Otkritie’s shareholders are connected to major state entities, a fact that prompted some analysts to believe it was too big and influential to be allowed to fail. The central bank …

“The most important element in theater is the audience’s imagination,” he said in a 1979 interview with The New York Times. The resulting play invited theatergoers to contemplate, among many other themes, what is normal and what isn’t. “The Elephant Man” was a hit for Foco Novo, and in 1979 …

Getty Images Lavar Ball and LaMelo Ball look on from the audience during week eight of the BIG3 three on three basketball league at Staples Center on August 13, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. Basketball’s current most famous family, the Balls, are headed to Facebook. “Ball in the Family” — …

In his first note to investors since the buy-out of the organic grocery chain became official on Monday, Mark Mahaney of RBC Capital Markets raised his estimate for Amazon’s 2018 profit by 10 percent. He also boosted his estimate for earnings per share by 4 percent, to $9.79, and hiked …

Capote held a similar place in Mr. Roth’s heart. The writer’s star turn in the movie “Murder by Death,” a 1976 comedy, got Mr. Roth going back to the theater 15 times, he said, braving the neighborhood bullies each time he went. Mr. Roth already sensed he was gay — …

Dhiraj Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee, left, shows simulation system to an attendee at the Rockwell Collins booth during the Aero India air show at Air Force Station Yelahanka in Bengaluru, India. United Technologies, owner of jet-engine maker Pratt & Whitney, has made progress in its talks …

Carlos Barria | Reuters President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping chat as they walk along the front patio of the Mar-a-Lago estate after a bilateral meeting in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., April 7, 2017. In yet another move resisting President Donald Trump’s repeated demands to rein in North …

Ms. Lonsdale is based in Portland, Ore., but has been traveling almost nonstop over the last three years, including a 10-day residency at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2016. Word of mouth and, most notably, Instagram have fueled her cult following; she’s done more than 20,000 portraits at …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple. Apple CEO Tim Cook has collected $89.6 million as part of a 10-year deal that he signed as an incentive to keep the iPhone maker at the forefront of the technology industry after he took …

Photo Eddie Huang in a scene from “Huang’s World.” Credit James Dermer for Viceland Eddie Huang’s travel series takes him to the luxurious emirate of Dubai, and a political drama recounts one British family’s rallying cry against the Iraq war. What’s on TV HUANG’S WORLD 10 p.m. on Viceland. The …