The New York Times is well known all around the world, but the main subject of the articles tend to be about the USA. In the international section of the newspapers there is more feature article like stories, as opposed to a string of several articles about one topic like presidential coverage, for example. Overall the style of the articles are longer and concentrate on evergreen topics. If a topic is relevant enought, it can make it to the cover of the Sunday newspapers, like this article about ISIS recruits did this week.
Because the Times is so old and is extensive it has won the most amount of Pulitzer prices than any other newspaper: 1918 for coverage of the war, 1930 to Russell Owen for Antartica expeditions, 1932 to Walter Duranti for Russia coverage, 1934 to Birchall for unbiased reporting from Germany, 1937 to McCormick for international reporting. More recent ones include in 2006 to three different reporters for their coverage of international news, including China’s law system, in 2011 to Barry and Levi for international reporting of the Russian law system, and in 2015 for front line reporting the Ebola epidemic in Africa. You can see the complete list here.
Of course with that must time aslo come controversies, althought most seem to be national affairs there were some that had ot do with international reporting. The newspapers has been accused of being pro Iraq invasion, and pro Israel. The company also admitted ot minimizing the danger of the Nazi party and the Holocaust during WW2.