Fighting erupted between Islamist rebels, government forces and African Union peacekeepers in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least 22 people, witnesses and medical staff said.
U.S. health officials again backed on Thursday the safety of Merck & Co Inc's vaccine to prevent infection by a virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari backed China's policies in its tense Xinjiang region ahead of his latest visit to the giant neighbor he has wooed as a strategic and economic counterweight to the West, Chinese state media said.
Iran has allowed U.N. nuclear inspectors access to a reactor under construction after blocking visits for a year, and has let them upgrade monitoring at another site ahead of a crucial report on its atomic program.
Britain on Friday condemned celebrations in Tripoli to mark the return of the Lockerbie bomber, and scrambled to deflect international fallout from the decision to free him on humanitarian grounds.
University and college students who come down with influenza this autumn should either go home to their parents or hunker down in dorm rooms to avoid spreading it, the U.S. government advised on Thursday.
The World Trade Organization is due on August 31 to adopt a ruling by its top court condemning U.S. anti-dumping measures, allowing Japan to seek retaliation against Washington, a WTO agenda showed on Friday.
His healthcare reform plan is stumbling, the economy is still sputtering and violence is up in Iraq and Afghanistan. Who wouldn't want a break?
Oil touched a high for this year above $74 a barrel on Friday ahead of further pointers on the economic health of the United States and as the dollar flagged against a stronger euro.
While businesses across the United States slash jobs, state and local governments have actually increased employment slightly since the economic recession began in December 2007, according to a report released on Thursday.
President Hamid Karzai's campaign and chief rival Abdullah Abdullah both said on Friday they had won Afghanistan's election, but Washington's chief envoy warned candidates not to declare victory prematurely.
Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Friday, spurred by positive economic data from Europe, as investors awaited a U.S. report on existing home sales and a speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on the lessons from the financial crisis.
Stocks rose on Friday after positive economic data from Europe and ahead of a U.S. report on existing home sales and a speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on the lessons from the financial crisis.
Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd posted a higher-than-expected second-quarter profit on Thursday but trimmed its full-year forecast for shipments and said prices on solar panels were still falling sharply, sending shares down 3 percent.
COLOGNE, Germany - Films and videogames would seem a match made in heaven, so why are games based on hit movies so bad? Despite sharing the same demographic of devoted fans, action, sci-fi and fantasy films rarely translate into branded videogame hits.
Stock index futures rose on Friday as investors looked to a speech from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and new data on the sale of existing homes for a fresh insight into the economy.
Central bankers around the world may be gathering to solve the world's problems at their annual mountain retreat hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, but the only fur coat being sported in the lobby of the Jackson Lake Lodge is by a stuffed grizzly bear.
Oil touched a high for this year above $73 a barrel on Friday ahead of further pointers on the economic health of the United States and as the dollar flagged against a stronger euro.
Caterpillar and Navistar International Corp are in talks with China's Jianghuai Automobile to set up a truck venture, a source said, as the firms become the latest foreign players to tap the market dominated by Chinese state auto groups.
Stock index futures rose on Friday as investors looked to a speech from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and new data on the sale of existing homes for a fresh insight into the economy.
Oil touched a year-high above $73 a barrel on Friday ahead of further pointers on the economic health of the United States and as the dollar flagged against a stronger euro.
Oil rose over $73 a barrel on Friday, off a seven-week high, ahead of further pointers on the economic health of the United States, the world's top energy consumer.
