Hyundai and affiliate Kia aim to boost global vehicle sales by 6 percent this year to a combined 7 million vehicles, which would mark a slowdown for a duo that has enjoyed double-digit sales rises in recent years.
President Barack Obama, striking a hopeful note in a year-end weekly address, hailed foreign policy milestones while keeping pressure on Congress to further extend payroll tax cuts through the end of 2012.
More lemurs are being hunted and eaten in Madagascar because of the eroding culture and taboos that protect the primates.
On Thursday, the 9/11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan welcomed its one millionth visitor.
Above the ballooning dress of Marilyn Monroe is the face of the late North Korean despot Kim Jong-il. A pigeon flies overhead and a feather lies nearby on the ground.
A Russian communications satellite fell to the ground on Friday soon after it was launched, adding to a string of disasters that have haunted the country's space industry, Russian news agencies reported on Friday, quoting military sources.
Japan has cut its forecast regrading economic growth for 2012 as a cumulative effect of a rising yen, natural disasters and the eurozone debt crisis.
The top 10 YouTube videos of 2011. Ms. Rebecca Black scored the top spot with her song, Friday.
Tokio Marine said it will buy U.S. insurer Delphi Financial Group for $2.7 billion and is eyeing other acquisition targets, as Japan's No.2 property-casualty insurer looks to expand outside its mature home market and diversify geographic risks.
In the aftermath of the Philippines flood,s 1,000 are dead and many more still missing
Flash floods and landslides caused by Typhoon Washi in the Philippines killed at least 684 people over the weekend.
Kim Jong-il, North Korea's Dear Leader, died on Saturday.
Officials in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, the worst-hit cities, said they were running out of evacuation centers and coffins for the dead. Funeral parlors already packed with decomposed bodies are no longer able to accommodate any freshly recovered corpses.
A boat carrying illegal immigrants heading for Australia sank off the coast of East Java in Indonesia and over 300 people were missing with many feared dead, a senior emergency official said.
The words pollution and play shouldn't go together, but these photos show the conditions in which children have been playing this year in various parts of the world.
As New Year's Eve 2011 approaches, one haunting thought comes to many minds - December 21, 2012. On this date, the Maya calendar comes to a halt; and many are predicting it will be the end of days.
The Federal Reserve on Tuesday pointed to turmoil in Europe as a big risk to the U.S. economy, leaving the door open to a further easing of monetary policy even as it noted some improvement in the U.S. labor market.
The Federal Reserve on Tuesday pointed to turmoil Europe as a big risk to the economy, leaving the door open to a further easing of monetary policy even as it noted some improvement in the labor market.
The Federal Reserve on Tuesday left monetary policy on hold but said financial market turbulence posed threats to economic growth, leaving the door open to further easing next year.
Survival expert James Mandeville shares vital tips for anyone headed for points unknown.
Twenty-seven years later, the impact from the Bhopal gas disaster is far-reaching as survivors continue to battle health issues, families fight to keep the memories of their loved ones alive, and companies and cities continue to face the fallout from what has been called the worst industrial disaster of our time.
Toyota Motor Corp and BMW AG agreed on Thursday to join hands on a broad range of environmental technologies, forging a partnership between two engineering stalwarts in the increasingly competitive auto industry.
