SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (AP):Shoaib Malik's highest score (75 off 54 balls) in Twenty20 Internationals could not prevent an England clean sweep in their three-match series. Yesterday's match at Sharjah Cricket Stadium...
UNITED KINGDOMLONDON, (AP):A Belfast High Court ruling is expected to ease Northern Ireland's strict anti-abortion laws to make it easier for women to terminate pregnancies in some cases.Abortions are illegal in Northern Ireland except in extreme...
Experts say a promise by Argentina's president-elect to expel Venezuela from the Mercosur trade bloc seems unlikely to be fulfilled.Venezuela became a full member of the South American bloc in 2012 in an effort to link the region's most powerful...
Published:Tuesday | November 24, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP
UNITED STATES, AP: Sixty-six percent of American four year-olds are enrolled in early childhood education, placing the United States well below average compared to other developed countries at a time of increasing focus on early learning,...
UNITED KINGDOMLONDON, (AP):Prince Charles said climate change is partly responsible for Syria?s civil war and the chaos it has unleashed.The heir to the British throne said climate change is causing drought, conflict over resources and mass...
Published:Thursday | November 19, 2015 | 11:05 AMAP
PARIS, (AP):Spain's interior minister says Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks, had used Internet social networks to try to recruit women from Spain to join the Islamic State group.Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz, speaking...
Published:Wednesday | November 18, 2015 | 10:52 AMAP
UNITED STATESCOLORADO, (AP):A bookstore in the Denver suburb of Englewood has been vandalised and the owners believe it is because of its name: ISIS Books and Gifts.KMGH-TV reports that the ISIS sign was damaged after someone threw rocks at it.The...
Published:Tuesday | November 17, 2015 | 10:57 AMAP
UNITED STATESWASHINGTON, (AP):House Speaker Paul Ryan yesterday called for a pause in Syrian refugees coming to the US in the wake of the Paris attacks and said the House will vote on the issue this week."Our nation has always been welcoming but we...
Published:Thursday | November 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP
Volkswagen is telling employees that they can come forward with information about how the company cheated on United States emissions tests, and won't be fired.In a move to get to...
Published:Thursday | November 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP
United States Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is stressing the need to review the unconventional monetary policies that central banks around the world deployed in response to the...
Published:Thursday | November 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP
A Hong Kong billionaire tycoon paid a total of US$77 million at auctions in Geneva for two large and rare coloured diamonds for his seven-year-old daughter Josephine - and renamed them after her, his...
Published:Thursday | November 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP
Tech giant Apple will resist the British government's efforts to get access to encrypted data through a new spying law, CEO Tim Cook said Wednesday.Last week, Britain published a draft law that...
Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2015 | 3:14 PMAP
The world's two biggest beer makers will join forces to create a company that produces almost a third of the world's beer. But in the United States, the deal will not bring arch rivals Budweiser and Miller under the same roof.Budweiser maker AB...
Published:Wednesday | November 4, 2015 | 1:02 PMAP
(1) Masked police officers stand in front of a house in Essen, Germany, yesterday. Germany's federal police conducted raids against international human trafficking networks across German.(2) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks...
NEPALKATHMANDU, (AP):Police shot at ethnic protesters who attacked a police station with gasoline bomb and stones on Nepal's southern border, killing an Indian man who was among the attackers, Nepalese officials said.Police official Raju Bahadur...
From east to west, trains offer a fine-grained, slow-moving view of Cuba that few foreigners ever see.Goats graze alongside tracks in the countryside, forcing trains to brake to avoid hitting them. Old American sedans line up at a crossing while...
Published:Thursday | October 29, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP
Under pressure from United States safety regulators, BMW's Mini brand is recalling more than 86,000 cars because the power steering could fail.The recall covers the Mini Cooper and Cooper S...
UNITED KINGDOMLONDON, (AP):Britain's civil service and several major companies have agreed to recruit university graduates and apprentices without knowing the applicants' names in an effort to eliminate bias against people from ethnic minorities....
Silicon Valley may think it can build a better car. But should it?As tech giants like Google and Apple look to automobiles as the next frontier for innovation, they face a looming reality: Cars are a lot harder to manufacture and sell than...
Published:Thursday | October 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP
CITING WORRIES about China and developing markets, the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday signalled it could increase monetary stimulus to the Eurozone at a meeting in December.The...
Published:Thursday | October 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMAP
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is vowing to expand price controls in a bid to battle rampant inflation.Maduro said on Tuesday that he will increase enforcement of rules that limit the profit retailers can...
