Toyota Motor Corp. reported Thursday a 14.5 percent drop in profit for the fiscal first quarter as sales fell and a strong yen slashed earnings for the Japanese automaker.
Britain is woefully short of one thing it desperately needs in its high-stakes divorce from the European Union: experienced trade negotiators.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for recent attacks but the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has rejected the claim
A Malaysian security law that gives embattled Prime Minister Najib Razak sweeping emergency powers came into force Monday, with Amnesty International warning of potentially "abusive powers."
Shares in Portugal's Banco Comercial Portugues were volatile Monday after China's Fosun made a surprise offer to take an almost 17 percent stake in the country's largest listed bank by assets.
An organization believed to be run by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) government hacked into the email accounts of dozens of officials, journalists and others in ROK this year, Seoul officials said Monday, the latest cyberattack that the South blames on its rival.
Vatican finance chief George Pell is being investigated by Australian police over child sexual abuse allegations, a report by the national broadcaster said on Thursday, as the leading Catholic cleric denounced the claims as “totally untrue”.
Donald Trump dared a foreign government to commit espionage on the US to hurt his rival on Wednesday, smashing yet another taboo in American political discourse and behaviour.
The killing of 19 people at a home for the mentally disabled raised questions about whether Japan’s reputation as one of the safest countries in the world is creating a false sense of security.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday declared an immediate, unilateral ceasefire with communist guerrillas and asked the rebels to do the same to end decades of deadly violence and foster the resumption of peace talks.
Russian athletes on Thursday (July 21) reacted with a mixture of anger and despair after the Court of Arbitration for Sport dashed their dreams of competing at the Rio Olympics by rejecting an appeal against a ban for doping.
The fallout over fake vaccines given to children prompted angry and confused parents to physically attack a doctor in the Indonesian capital in a sign of deep-seated problems in the country’s health system.
In a world where there's a smartphone app for everything, one company－Amazon.com Inc－has long been the host for an outsized share of online software and computing services.
Japanese fans eagerly awaiting the launch of "Pokemon Go" in the character's country of birth faced another day of disappointment Wednesday.
DPRK’s state radio has recently broadcast strings of indecipherable numbers, Seoul officials said on Tuesday, in a possible resumption of a cold war-era method of sending coded messages to spies operating in South Korea.
Answering nature’s call was once a nightmare for Rashida Begum, who had to creep around the jungle for a suitably private spot. Her home had no toilet, like the thousands of others in her crowded cluster of farming villages outside the capital.
With the dust still not settled from one of Australia’s closest ever elections, competing political factions have begun issuing demands – from banning Muslim immigration to scrapping a trade deal with China to imposing curbs on gambling – in return for supporting government legislation in the next Senate.
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