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Henry Chu, Bureau Chief
Henry Chu joined the Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005 and New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 before locating to London in 2009. He was born in Indianapolis but grew up in Southern California and received his B.A. from Harvard University. His most exotic assignment so far has been a week spent along the Ohio-Kentucky border. EMAIL
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The moves are a setback for the U.S. bid to strike Syria militarily for its alleged chemical weapons use.
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David Suchet, who has played Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot on TV for the last 25 years, completes his run — and the character’s canon.
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The bookseller who discovered the poster advising Britons to ‘keep calm and carry on,’ which sparked a cultural craze, has joined with other merchants hoping to overturn one man’s trademark of the slogan.
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Pope Francis, who heads to Brazil on Monday, has won the hearts of millions of Catholics. That may come in handy as he seeks to reform the Vatican.
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For Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, royalty and celebrity don’t overlap, a distinction observers credited with helping to preserve the monarchy’s appeal.
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Once an Ohio autoworker, John Demjanjuk was stripped of his U.S. citizenship and deported to Germany to face trial. He was found complicit in the deaths of more than 28,000 people.
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Regarded by many as the country’s most important peacetime leader of the 20th century, Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain with a conservative free-market revolution. The ‘Iron Lady’ was known as much for her formidable persona as her polarizing policies.
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Graeme Knowles says his position as dean ‘was becoming untenable’ in the face of mounting criticism of St. Paul’s response to the anticapitalist protesters camped outside the church.
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More Britons are listening to the radio than ever — over 90% of all adults in the U.K. — and the channel offers quality programs unequaled in the States.
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The Swiss-born thinker, who was denied a visa to teach in the U.S., says he is a reformist interested in a ‘post-integration discourse’ to explore the ways Muslims in the West can contribute.
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Tortured detectives in ‘Luther’ and ‘Thorne,’ among others, point to a wave of dark crime drama. Viewers can’t seem to get enough.
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After Bhutto’s slaying, Nawaz Sharif casts himself as the one to lead the charge against archenemy Musharraf. But the former premier faces an uphill fight -- at home and in Washington.
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‘Politics is . . . in my blood,’ he says, while asking for privacy while he finishes his studies at Oxford.
