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ROME (AP) — The first scientific tests on what are believed to be the remains of the Apostle Paul, the Roman Catholic saint, “seem to conclude” that they belong to him, Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday. Skip to next paragraph ... [full story]

THE BASICS Skip to next paragraph New Jersey Travel GuideGo to the New Jersey Travel Guide » Enlarge This Image Laura Pedrick for The New York Times The exterior of the Bungalow Hotel. ... [full story]

IN the mid-1990s, the Internet took off because its technological time had come. Years of steady progress in developing more powerful and less expensive computers, Web software and faster communications links finally came together. Skip to next paragraph ... [full story]

SEOUL, South Korea — At the Coex Convention Center in this city’s southern district, a site best known for sleek business exhibitions, Kang Dal-soo, 76, joined the rush to check out the “silver job fair” offering 2,000 private sector and ... [full story]

IN New York City, the rental market can seem a lot like the black market. Renters are accustomed to feeling hustled, fleeced, and generally at the mercy of predatory forces beyond their control — and that’s when everything goes O.K. ... [full story]

Warren Platner, an architect and designer who created a furniture collection that has proved to be an enduring icon of 1960's Modernism and designed several prominent interiors in New York, including offices for the Ford Foundation building and the original ... [full story]

South Carolina petitioned the Federal Communications Commission on Monday to protect the public safety by blocking signals from contraband cellphones emanating from prisons. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image South Carolina Department of Corrections Cellphones confiscated from ... [full story]

Ferndale, N.Y. Skip to next paragraph Bob Herbert Go to Columnist Page » if (acm.rc) acm.rc.write(); The building housing the ducks in this lush region of the ... [full story]

BEIJING — Thousands of Han Chinese protesters swarmed around government buildings in the capital of the restive Xinjiang region on Thursday to demand a crackdown on Uighurs after rumors spread that they were sticking hundreds of Hans with H.I.V.-tainted hypodermic ... [full story]

IN the 1980s, I worked as a respiratory therapist in intensive-care units in the Midwest, taking care of elderly, dying patients on ventilators. I remember marveling, along with the young doctors and nurses I worked with, over how many millions ... [full story]