Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault. By Anton Troianovski “I ...

By James Wagner and Luis Antonio Rojas CreditLuis Antonio Rojas for The New York Times. From the Surf to the Sermon: The Christian Surfers of Costa Rica A group of missionaries who surf have ...

Based on previous allocations of the Department for Education’s annual funding for schools condition, the local authority has ...