Reuters

After al Shabaab gunmen massacred nearly 150 people at a Kenyan university on Thursday, churches in Kenya are turning to armed guards to protect their congregations.

Typhoon Maysak weakened significantly as it made landfall, although officials still warned of heavy rain and rough seas.

A number of Japanese manufacturers are shifting production back to Japan from China and elsewhere to take advantage of a weaker yen.

Eight months after suffering a horrific injury, Paul George is expected to return to the Indiana Pacers' lineup on Sunday.

A European regulator found that the agency lacked staff, likely limiting its ability to carry out checks on planes and crew.

Media showed images of Castro shaking hands with visiting Venezuelans through the window of his vehicle, wearing a baseball cap and a windbreaker.

The Red Cross is calling for a 24-hour stoppage of fighting in Yemen where it says humanitarian aid is necessary.

Islamic State militants are being targeted in Tikrit as Iraqi forces take "revenge" after liberating the city.

Trial of former President Hosni Mubarak and his sons for corruption begins in Egyptian court.

"It’s a good deal, a deal that meets our core objectives," Obama said in his weekly radio and internet address.

More than 400 people have been killed by al Shabaab on Kenyan soil since President Uhuru Kenyatta took power in April 2013.

A Palestinian refugee camp on the Damascus outskirts has been almost entirely taken over by the Islamic State group.

The Red Cross said that aid and medical staff it is trying to send to Yemen were still blocked, despite appeals to the Saudi-led coalition.

Bomb experts have cordoned off the area and are searching for other possible devices, Egyptian state media reported.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry the deal was a boost to relations between their two countries.

The unemployment rate is forecast to hold steady at a more than 6-1/2 year low of 5.5 percent.

The HSBC/Markit China Services Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) inched higher to 52.3 in March, compared with February's 52.0.

IBM has uncovered a sophisticated fraud scheme run by a well- funded Eastern European gang of cyber criminals that uses a combination of phishing, malware and phone calls that IBM says has netted more than $1 million.

Burkina Faso’s government confirmed on Wednesday that an outbreak of H5N1 avian flu was responsible for the deaths of large numbers of chickens in two regions of the country in recent weeks.

Mainstream Syrian rebels seized a border crossing with Jordan from the government, the leader of one of the rebel groups and a security source on the government's side said, the first time Damascus has lost it since the start of the conflict.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday it has confirmed that Zulkifli bin Hir, one of its "most wanted terrorists," was killed in a raid in the Philippines in January.

Chad's army said its forces had killed hundreds of Boko Haram militants and lost nine of its own troops in clashes in northern Nigeria on Wednesday.

Iraqi troops aided by Shi'ite paramilitaries have driven Islamic State out of central Tikrit, Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said on Tuesday, but the fight to retake all of Saddam Hussein's hometown continued.

Web hosting company GoDaddy Inc. has priced its initial public offering at $20 per share, above its previously indicated $17 to $19 per share range, valuing it at around $4.5 billion, including debt, according to underwriting sources.

The British star appears set to sign a deal worth $40 million a year.

Separate data on Tuesday showed that German retail sales jumped by 3.6 percent in February in real terms.

For 2014 as a whole, the economy grew 2.8 percent -- the biggest expansion since 2006.

The poll's findings exceeded all forecasts from 17 economists surveyed by Reuters last week.

Hyundai Motor Co. said it aims to commercialize autonomous driving capabilities in some of its cars in 2020, as the the automaker plays catch-up in the increasingly competitive technology.