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Zurab K. TSereteli, a Georgian-Russian artist whose towering monuments and heroic statues were pleased to the Kremlin authorities, but aroused contempt from Moscow to New Jersey, died on Tuesday in his home outside Moscow. He was 91 years old.His death was announced by Sergei Shagulashvili, his assistant. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia sent a note of condolences to the family of Mr. Tsereteli, calling him "an exceptional representative of multinational Russian culture".An admirer of Mr. Putin, Mr. Tsereteli, revealed his imposing bronze statue in 2004, dressed in a tunic of Judo Law. (The work was so scarcely received, however, that he remained with Mr. Tsereteli in his gallery.)The exuberant work of TSereteli has largely defined the post-Soviet Russian aesthetic. Flamboyant and liv...

This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email [email protected] with any questions.kevin rooseCasey, I miss you. You’re in New York this week.casey newtonI’m in New York. I thought it was time to finally come back to the offices of “The New York Times,” and see what I could find out about your performance review.kevin roose[LAUGHS]: Our studio in San Francisco feels very empty without you. What are you up to there?casey newtonIt’s so empty, you can actually fully extend your legs while standing inside the studio, which is not always true when there’s two hosts present. So I saw “Titanique” last night. Have you seen the...

Insulin, cardiac treatments and antibiotics have flowed freely on many boundaries for decades, free from the rates in an attempt to make medicine accessible. But this could soon change.For months, President Trump has promised to impose higher rates to pharmaceutical products as part of his plan to rearrange the global trading system and report the key manufacturing industries in the United States. This month, he said that the pharmaceutical rates could arrive in the "not too distant future".If they did, the move would have serious - and wildly uncertain consequences - for drugs made in the European Union.Pharmaceutical products and chemicals are export n. 1 of the blockage in America. Among these are the successful ozemics of weight loss, cancer treatments, cardiovascular drugs and flu vac...

The Palestinian leaders in the western canca occupied by Israel met this week for the first gathering of its kind for years. Their mission: allow Mahmoud Abbas, the aging of the president of the Palestinian authority, to appoint a long -standing loyalist to a senior position just coined. Saturday evening, Mr. Abbas formally called Hussein Al-Sheikh, a narrow confidant, as his deputy. Some analysts believed that the promotion of Mr. Al-Sheikh indicated that Mr. Abbas, 89, was reporting that Mr. Al-Sheikh was his favorite heir, while others saw him as a cosmetic reshuffle to appease the Arabic officials frustrated by the Palestinian leader.For many Palestinians, the attention of their leadership on the politics of the palace while the war in Gaza has raged and a wide Israeli military operati...

The transition from one Pope to another can be a mystifying moment for those who are not familiar with the functioning of the Roman Catholic Church - and even for some who are.The process is governed by secular rules and traditions that derive from their vocabulary, largely in Latin. It is likely that the election of a new pope will take place over weeks or months while a small group of Catholic prelates decides on the next leader of a global flock of over a billion faithful.With the first papal transition in more than a decade in progress after the death of Pope Francis, who was put at rest on Saturday, here are some terms to know:ConclaveThis is the meeting of the Cardinals, who will begin next month, which will elect the next Pope. The word derives from the Latin "with the key" and refe...

At the end of 2023, Israel aimed to assassinate Ibrahim Biari, a high -level commander in the northern strip of Gaza who had contributed to planning the massacres of 7 October. But the Israeli intelligence was unable to find Mr. Biari, who believed it was hidden in the tunnel network under Gaza.So the Israeli officers turned to a new military technology infused with artificial intelligence, three Israeli and American officials informed the events. The technology had been developed a decade before but had not been used in battle. Finding Mr. Biari provided a new incentive to improve the tool, therefore the engineers in the 8200 unit of Israel, equivalent of the country of the National Security Agency, soon integrated the IA in it, said people.Shortly thereafter, Israel listened to the calls...

David Paton, an idealist and innovative ophthalmologist who started in Project Orbis, converting a United Airlines jet to a flying hospital that brought surgeons to developing countries to operate on patients and educate local doctors, died on April 3 at his house in Reno, Nev. It was 94.His death was confirmed by his son, Townley.Son of an important eye surgeon in New York whose patients included Iran's Shah and the lender J. Pierpont Morgan's Horse, dr. Paton (pronounced Pay-Ton tonne) was teaching the Johns Hopkins University Wilmer Eye Institute in the early 70s when discouraged by increasing cases increasing cases preventable in places."Other eye doctors were needed," he wrote in his memories book, "Second Sight: views from A Eye Doctor's Odyssey" (2011), "but equally impo...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel offered condolences on Thursday on the disappearance of Pope Francis, more than three days after the death of the leader of the Roman Catholic world.The delay in the issue of a declaration highlighted the apparent tensions in the relationship between Israeli officials and the Pope, who clearly criticized Israel's conduct in the war in Gaza and repeatedly requested a ceased."The state of Israel expresses its deepest condolences to the Catholic Church and the Catholic community all over the world to the disappearance of Pope Francis," said the office of the Israeli Prime Minister in an assignment on X. "can rest in peace".Nor did the X account in the Jewish language for the Prime Minister's Office, nor the personal account of Netanyahu brou...

Any clue about the life of William Shakespeare usually excites scholars, but a piece of trial had been overlooked for decades. Now, a new analysis of that neglected document seems to break a longtime narrative on the bad marriage of the Bardo.Shakespeare was 18 years old in 1582 when he married Anne Hathaway, daughter of a family friend in Stratford-Upon-Avon who was in the mid-1920s and pregnant. For centuries, it was thought that the writer left his wife and children behind for a literary life in London, trying to avoid "the humiliation of domestic feuds", as an influential essayist of the 19th century said.This vision of Shakespeare's wife as a "distant footprint" suitable for scholars who thought that "Shakespeare was too interesting to be a married boy," said Matthew Steggle, a pr...

The question if being educated to artificial intelligence may seem like a controversial point - after all it is artificial.But Sam Altman, CEO of the Openai artificial intelligence company, recently shed light on the cost of adding a further "please!" or "Thanks!" For chatbot suggestions.Someone published on X last week: "I wonder how much Openi money lost the costs of electricity from the people who say" please "and" thanks "to their models."The next day, Mr. Altman replied: "Tens of millions of dollars well spent - you never know".First: every single question of a chatbot costs money and energy and every additional word as part of that church increases the cost for a server.Neil Johnson, a physics professor at the George Washington University who studied artificial intelligence, compared...