The town square in El Rebalse is now an island amid Hurricane Patricia's floodwaters, a place for Maria Santana Vazquez and her husband to rest Sunday after wading through water, at times chest deep, trying to return...
John Kerry's latest Mideast mission has aimed for the modest goal of easing tensions around Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site - the focal point of more than a month of deadly unrest.
At least three people died after a whale watching boat with 27 people on board sank off Vancouver Island and a rescue mission remained active late Sunday, Canadian authorities said.
More than 120 people were injured when a high-speed ferry traveling from the Asian gambling hub of Macau to Hong Kong slammed into an object floating in the water, authorities said Monday.
TOFINO, British Columbia (Reuters) - A Canadian whale-watching tour boat with 27 passengers on board sank off the coast of British Columbia on Sunday, killing at least four people, rescue officials said.
SHANGHAI, Oct 26 (Reuters) - China's one year loan prime rate, a daily benchmark lending rate compiled from nine commercial banks nationwide, was down 25 basis points on Monday - matching the central bank's quarter percentage point interest rate cut on Friday evening.
A spokesman for a Pakistani charity says an Indian woman who accidently crossed the border into Pakistan as a child 12 years ago has left for New Delhi hoping to be reunited with her family.
Opponents of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul are taking yet another challenge to the law to the Supreme Court, and say they will be back with more if this one fails.
It was a truly outrageous weekend at the box office, and not in a good way.
Actress Janine Gutierrez has neither wished on a star nor tossed a coin into a well for love to come her way.
Asian stock markets rose Monday after China cut interest rates and expectations grew that other major central banks will maintain or expand already extensive monetary stimulus.
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...
A Chinese investment holding company said it has signed a letter of intent to purchase oil fields in Texas for 8.3 billion yuan ($1.3 billion) through a limited liability partnership.
Volkswagen's effort to fix its emissions scandal will be largely led by company insiders. Some experts say it's the only way, given the German carmaker's unusually complicated structure and power groups.
The United Auto Workers union and General Motors have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract.
Philippine fashion ambassador and beauty queen expert Renee Salud is all-out in supporting Pia Wurtzbach, the country’s representative to this year’s Miss Universe pageant.
Hong Kong, China | AFP -- Asian traders on Monday welcomed China's decision to cut borrowing costs again and remove a cap on savings rates ahead of a key policy meeting this week, but analysts warned the move indicates further weakness in the world's number two economy.
When Lavin Eskander's family describes his cheerful personality and his passion for music, they switch back and forth between present and past tense, as if they haven't fully accepted that he's not coming back.
President Bashar Assad is willing to run in an early presidential election, hold parliamentary elections and discuss constitutional changes, but only after the defeat of "terrorist" groups, Russian lawmakers said after...
Declaring that "today is a time of mercy," Pope Francis on Sunday closed a historic meeting of bishops that approved an important new direction in welcoming divorced and civilly remarried Catholics into the church.
Vancouver, Canada | AFP -- Four have been confirmed dead after a whale-watching vessel carrying 27 people sank off Canada's Pacific coast near Vancouver Island, and the toll could increase, the Coast Guard said Sunday.
Actor-model Aljur Abrenica returns to the limelight after more than a year of hibernation via “Dangwa” opposite Janine Gutierrez.
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party opened a key meeting on Monday that will focus on financial reforms and how to maintain growth of around seven percent and more broadly map out economic and social targets for the next five years.
BEIJING/SHANGHAI, Oct 26 (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party opened a key meeting on Monday that will focus on financial reforms and how to maintain growth of around seven percent and more broadly map out economic and social targets for the next five years.