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Byline: Emily Schmall, Amanda Taub, Shalini Venugopal Bhagat and Andrea Bruce For Indian families, a modest wedding is an oxymoron. No matter how meager a household's earnings, no expense can [...]

Byline: Amanda Taub, Emily Schmall, Shalini Venugopal Bhagat and Andrea Bruce Arti Kumari, 22, crouched on a dusty dirt track in a runner's lunge, waiting to spring forward as soon [...]

Byline: Amanda Taub, Emily Schmall, Shalini Venugopal Bhagat and Andrea Bruce As Nasreen Parveen ran, her mind focused on nothing but putting one foot in front of the other. Run. [...]

Byline: Amanda Taub, Emily Schmall, Shalini Venugopal Bhagat and Andrea Bruce Nasreen Parveen decided to run for her life at the same moment she decided not to end it. She [...]

Byline: Emily Schmall, Amanda Taub, Shalini Venugopal Bhagat, Andrea Bruce and Saumya Khandelwal There are moments in life that stick in memory as a fulcrum between before and after. Arti [...]

For Indian families, a modest wedding is an oxymoron. No matter how meager a household's earnings, no expense can be spared. It was no different for Arti Kumari's parents, despite [...]

As Nasreen Parveen ran, her mind focused on nothing but putting one foot in front of the other. Run. Occasionally, for the briefest flash, she remembered the high window ledge [...]

Nasreen Parveen decided to run for her life at the same moment she decided not to end it. She had made it all the way out to the ledge of [...]

There are moments in life that stick in memory as a fulcrum between before and after. Arti Kumari's came on a morning a few months after her wedding, when she [...]

Arti Kumari, 22, crouched on a dusty dirt track in a runner's lunge, waiting to spring forward as soon as her mother started the clock. Although Arti had risen before [...]

Arti passed every test for her government job but still faced disappointment and a new set of challenges. https://www.nytimes.com/series/indias-daughters Chapter 6: Struggle and Hope There are moments in life that [...]

Byline: Michael Corkery and Andrea Bruce Anne Hartley's brick house in Ebony, Va., overlooks windswept fields, a Methodist church, a general store and the intersection of two country roads, a [...]

Anne Hartley's brick house in Ebony, Va., overlooks windswept fields, a Methodist church, a general store and the intersection of two country roads, a pastoral setting that evokes an Edward [...]

It was the moment two families had long waited for. But Arti feared it could be the end of her dreams for a career. https://www.nytimes.com/series/indias-daughters For Indian families, a modest [...]

She had dreams of a prestigious government career. Her family wanted an engagement she couldn’t refuse. https://www.nytimes.com/series/indias-daughters Chapter 3: Bargaining for Time Arti Kumari, 22, crouched on a dusty dirt [...]

She escaped an abusive betrothal, but her family’s reputation was suffering for it. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/world/asia/indias-daughters-women-careers.html Chapter 2: Chasing Dreams at a Steep Cost As Nasreen Parveen ran, her mind focused on [...]

For two young women, chasing opportunity in India has been a fight for their lives. To Take Control, She Had to Run Nasreen Parveen decided to run for her life [...]

Byline: Declan Walsh and Andrea Bruce The sea of rag-and-stick tents that spreads in every direction from the hungry, embattled city of Baidoa, in southern Somalia, gives way to sprawling [...]

The sea of rag-and-stick tents that spreads in every direction from the hungry, embattled city of Baidoa, in southern Somalia, gives way to sprawling plains controlled by the militants of [...]

Byline: Andrea Bruce Lead 'I knew when I saw you, I wanted to take you home,' my dad says to me. He is sitting in his reclining chair, the cushioned [...]

As other American forces shipped out of Iraq, a handful of units stayed behind to help wind up the bases. At the center of the logistical nightmare of leaving the [...]

The article discusses the author's claim that many girls from India's rural regions are finding their independence by participating in an Indian government program which is designed to train young women to work in factories in places such as Bangalore, India. Social engineering in the country is addressed, as well as employee recruitment, the city-related dreams of young women, love, and the efforts to expand India's economy and gross domestic product.

The article reports on the burial of the 24-year-old lieutenant of the Syrian Army who was killed in an ambush at the other country in September 2013. It states that the army was a supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who came from the remote village of Daqaqa in Latakia, Syria. It mentions the unofficial figures of victims of the civil war on the Syrian Arab Army and pro-government militants. It also notes the 110,000 deaths tallied by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The article discusses the status of Damascus, Syria as of September 29, 2013, noting its daily life in relation to the country's ongoing civil war. It addresses citizens' concerns for personal safety, the number of displaced Syrians in Damascus and its impact on the country's economy, and increasing optimism surrounding the possibility of peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition fighters.

CAIRO -- When the prime minister of Egypt stepped down on Thursday, Shereen Diaa, 32, was cooking lunch for her two young sons in a suburb on Cairo's outskirts. A veiled woman who molds her life around her children, Ms. Diaa had promised herself she would stop attending political protests and focus on her boys, ages 6 and 8. But when she saw on Facebook that the new prime minister himself would address the protesters the next day, in an unprecedented act, she could not resist. ''I will leave you only two hours,'' she said she told the children, dropping them off with her mother and then heading downtown to Tahrir Square. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]