Friday, May 24, 2013 - 05:30
BEIJING/SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) -- A North Korean envoy met a senior Chinese military official Friday, reiterating his country's willingness to talk with "all concerned parties" to ease tension in the...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 05:30
TOKYO - Japan's top leaders are defending the economic strategies championed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, though the central bank chief acknowledged a need for better communication with financial...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 05:16
Below is information on the current background air quality in some of Europe's major cities based on data taken from http://www.airqualitynow.eu and recorded at 8:00 am GMT May 24.
City Quality...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 05:16
C Jesus Sucre is expected to join the Mariners on Friday as a roster replacement for demoted C Jesus Montero, according to the (Tacoma) News Tribune. Sucre, 25, is hitting .392 with no homers and...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 05:16
RHP Robert Coello got Alcides Escobar to fly out to right to end the game, strand two inherited runners and log his first big-league save. Coello has allowed just two hits, walked none and struck out...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 05:16
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday the Syrian government had agreed in principle to attend an international peace conference proposed by Russia and the United States, and criticized what it...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 05:16
LONDON (Reuters) - London's Heathrow Airport closed both its runways on Friday following an incident with a British Airways plane, the airport operator said.
British Airways said it was investigating...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 05:15
BEIJING (Reuters) - China hopes that this week's visit by a senior North Korean envoy can ease tension in the region and help spur efforts to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons, a Chinese...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 05:15
The government said Friday it is "not aware" of any ghosts rumored to haunt the prime minister's official residence, in response to a written inquiry submitted by an opposition lawmaker....
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 05:15
The Taiwan government Friday appointed Lee Chia-chin, a senior National Security Council adviser, as de facto ambassador to Japan.
Lee, 56, named to head Taiwan's Association of East Asian...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 05:00
Global rights group Amnesty International urged Malaysia Friday to end its "post-election crackdown" which has seen four critics arrested in the aftermath of the government's worst electoral result....
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 05:00
German business confidence rose unexpectedly in May, data showed on Friday, as businesses in Europe's top economy express satisfaction with their situation and become more optimistic about the future...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 05:00
More than a dozen cars were torched and schools, shops and a police station were set ablaze as riots swept through Stockholm's immigrant-dominated suburbs for the fifth straight night, police and...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 05:00
SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) -- The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) called on the government Friday to normalize inter-Korean ties, saying the prolonged impasse is hurting South Korean businesses....
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 05:00
Below is information on the current background air quality in some of Europe's major cities based on data taken from http://www.airqualitynow.eu and recorded at 8:00 am GMT May 24.
City Quality...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 04:45
By Alasdair Fotheringham
POLSA, Italy (Reuters) May 23 - Two major climbs have been axed from Friday's key stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia because of snow and ice on their descent although the main...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 04:44
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday confirmed a White House nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
In a break from partisan battles over judicial...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 04:44
By Barbara Liston and Mark Hosenball
ORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A special FBI team from Washington on Thursday began reviewing the death of a Chechen immigrant linked to the Boston Marathon...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 04:44
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Searchers on Thursday found the body of a second fourth-grader killed when a landslide swept students, who were on a fossil-hunting field trip, into a pit full of water and...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 04:43
By Kim Palmer
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The man made famous for putting down his Big Mac to help free three women held captive for about a decade in a Cleveland house will never have to buy a hamburger...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 04:41
By Chrystia Freeland
NEW YORK (Reuters) - We are living in the age of the technocrats. In business, Big Data, and the Big Brains who can parse it, rule. In government, the technocrats are on top, too...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 04:34
By Deepa Seetharaman
DETROIT (Reuters) - Chrysler Group LLC and Tesla Motors Inc <TSLA.O>, both led by media-savvy executives, are trading public jabs over the definition of payback.
Tesla...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 04:31
By Aaron Maasho and Richard Lough
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Kenya has asked other African countries to urge the International Criminal Court (ICC) to drop crimes-against-humanity charges against its...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 04:16
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon will visit Japan from May 31 to attend a gathering of Japanese and African leaders on African development to be held in Yokohama, the Japanese Foreign Ministry...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 04:15
What's happening in Europe on Friday:
+ IMF chief Lagarde faces second day of questioning
+ Britain probes Islamist attack on soldier
+ Syria opposition weighs peace talks
+ Fifth night of rioting in...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 04:15
Shares of Indian pharmaceuticals firm Wockhardt plunged nearly 19 percent Friday, a day after it said the US drugs regulator had banned imports from one of its manufacturing units over quality...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 04:15
German consumer confidence remains robust, shrugging off fears of a eurozone recession, a new poll found on Friday.
"Even though the European Commission has forecast a recession for the eurozone this...
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 04:15
SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) -- Police raided the headquarters of Daewoo Engineering
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 04:02
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed at 97.14 cents U-S, up 73-100ths from Wednesday's close.
The S-and-P/T-S-X composite index lost 94.41 points to 12,658.09.
Volume at 4:15 p.m. Eastern Time was...
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