“Hypercars” can approach or even exceed 300 m.p.h. Often costing millions of dollars, they’re ostentatious trophies—and sublime engines of innovation.

In 1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the Pacific. For decades, the families of the dead wondered where in the lightless depths of the ocean the ship could possibly be....

Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die.

A P.R. company that worked with dictators and oligarchs deliberately inflamed racial tensions in South Africa—and destroyed itself in the process.

International cricket played in England without crowds was a sterile prospect, in more than one sense, but it was still cricket. A summer was possible.

One of the world’s largest illicit bazaars was shuttered using data seized from a fortified bunker in Germany.

A young Englishman got mixed up in a white-supremacist movement. Then he learned of a plot to kill a politician.

The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped?

At the Ineos 1:59 Challenge, in Vienna, the world-record holder, Eliud Kipchoge, will face long-distance running’s most daunting barrier—likely for the last time.

Nikolai Glushkov, a close associate of the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky, was preparing to testify that Aeroflot was a corrupt instrument of Russian intelligence. Then, on the eve of his court date,...

An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals.

On the streets of Vienna, on Saturday, Kipchoge ran a time that was, until recently, considered impossible.

At its best, identity-driven support for British soccer teams can lead fans to feel part of something wonderful and complicated, something much larger than themselves and generations old.

Three journeys from the past century—a rogue adventurer’s, my father’s, and mine—converged in the air.

The joys—and absurdities—of finding oneself abandoned in a desolate landscape.

NewFronts mainstay Condé Nast announced a slate of 125 digital series and a renewed emphasis on long-form and live programming.

In a country where eating out is seen as more of a luxury than a necessity, it is one of the first expenses that people forgo in hard times.

Drug syndicates and other criminal groups bought into the idea that a new kind of phone network couldn’t be infiltrated by cops. They were wrong—big time.

He leads a manic, exhausting life—but when he’s guiding clubbers through one of his marathon sets it feels like time has been suspended.

A young Englishman got mixed up in a white-supremacist movement. Then he learned of a plot to kill a politician.

Eira Thomas’s company has used radical new methods to find some of the biggest uncut gems in history.

In 1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the Pacific. For decades, the families of the dead wondered where in the lightless depths of the ocean the ship could possibly be....

After publishing our story about the hunt for the sunken U.S.S. Wasp, dozens of readers shared the experiences of husbands, brothers, fathers, uncles, grandfathers and great-uncles who had served on...

An Eritrean trafficker promised to help Africans desperate to reach Europe—then brutalized them inside a Libyan compound while extorting their families back home. With his fortune, he partied in...