The New York Times

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The practice of allowing a physician to help severely ill patients end their lives has been legalised in nine countries, however there are still major questions about who should be eligible.

Denmark’s Prime Minister issued a grave warning that if the US President acted on his desire for the mineral-rich territory, it would mean the end of NATO, the world’s strongest defensive alliance.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Vladimir Putin was Nicolas Maduro’s ally, but allies come and go. Worldviews, and the desire to force the world to conform to them, stay. Mr Putin’s world has just become more harmonious. 

The new years is a time where certain thoughts are stirred up, like should you give up coffee?

‘You cannot imagine seeing all those young people piled up in the bar, dead.’

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro is now in a New York prison. Some of what happens next is predictable, but the extraordinary nature of the case makes much unclear.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump has announced the United States will ‘run’ Venezuela following an advanced military operation that saw President Nicolás Maduro and his wife captured.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Government of Israel on Friday accused Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York of antisemitism, following his decision the day before to cancel two executive orders issued by his predecessor.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the ’overhaul’ was underway to make Ukraine ‘more resilient’.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: New technology called PANDA, is being used in Chinese hospitals to detect hard-to-find pancreatic tumours that doctors sometimes miss.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: China’s centrality in rare earths didn’t happen by accident. It is the result of decades of planning and domestic and overseas investment from the highest levels of the Chinese government.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: In recent months, a tumble in some of the more speculative AI companies has also knocked down some of the market’s leaders.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Uber has left many drivers with records of complaints on the road — until passengers accused them of serious sexual assault, according to a New York Times investigation.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Zohran Mamdani was officially sworn in as mayor of New York City just after the New Year’s Eve ball dropped in Times Square.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Seemingly banished in this age of digital saturation, boredom is the unlikely star of a social media fad that has young people sharing videos of themselves doing … absolutely nothing.