Big eyes, tiny noses and round cheeks; scientists explain why animals like Moo Deng the pygmy hippo have us hooked.

What explains her charm? Moo Deng walking around her enclosure with her mother, Jona, in January at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in central Thailand.Credit...Lauren DeCicca for The New York Times ...

He's small, cute and viral: the baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng, housed in a Thai zoo, has become the star of millions of posts, memes and videos around the world. But in the wild, the pygmy ...

In its six-decade quest to return to its New York roots, the classic musical “Funny Girl” got used to the world raining on its parade. After an array of false starts and high-profile planned ...

In this week’s issue of the Global Impact newsletter, we look at how Xi Jinping presented himself as the true heir to Deng Xiaoping.

China had grown rapidly from the market reform of Deng Xiaoping but lacked a means of assessing how trustworthy lenders and borrowers were, essential to trade and continued growth. The Social ...

Law enforcers and military officials presented the suspect, identified as Deng Yuanqing, at a press conference in Manila on Monday, and two Filipinos who were allegedly also involved in the case.

The arrested individual, identified as Deng Yuanqing, is a technical software engineer connected with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). NBI Director Jaime Santiago said Deng studied at the ...

South Sudan’s Vice President in charge of the Infrastructure Cluster Gen. Taban Deng Gai issued a strong warning to citizens against taking the law into their own hands, cautioning that such ...

Seventeen-year-old Joseph Deng from South Sudan is the first ever player from his country to sign with a major league team, per Baseball America’s Ban Badler, as he inked a deal with the Dodgers.