MANILA (Reuters) - Islamist militants have freed a former Catholic missionary priest on a remote Philippine southern island, six months after the Italian man was abducted from his pizza parlour, a military spokesman said on Friday.
North Korea holds an art exhibition in Pyongyang to mark the 104th birth anniversary of the state's founder Kim Il Sung. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
North Korea holds an art exhibition in Pyongyang to mark the 104th birth anniversary of the state's founder Kim Il Sung. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
North Korea holds an art exhibition in Pyongyang to mark the 104th birth anniversary of the state's founder Kim Il Sung. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
North Korea holds an art exhibition in Pyongyang to mark the 104th birth anniversary of the state's founder Kim Il Sung. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
The Goose Creek Post Office received a bomb threat this morning, authorities said.
MUMBAI/TORONTO April 8 (Reuters) - Fairfax India Holdings said on Friday it has agreed to acquire a minority stake in privately held Indian petrochemical company Sanmar Chemicals via a roughly $300 million investment.
April 8 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc paid Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein $22.6 million for 2015, according to a regulatory filing on Friday, marking his first pay decline in four years.
After a series of upper-level staff losses to other agencies, Charleston International Airport is taking one from the city of Charleston.
April 8 (Reuters) - U.S. energy firms cut oil rigs for a third week in a row to the lowest level since November 2009, oil services company Baker Hughes Inc said Friday, as energy firms keep slashing spending despite a roughly 50 percent jump in crude futures since hitting a near 13-year low in February. Drillers cut 8 oil rigs in the week to April 8, bringing the total rig count down to 354, Baker Hughes said in its closely followed report. The number of U.S. oil r
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters began releasing late on Friday some of the scores of cement plant workers they kidnapped northeast of Damascus this week, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.
An airman shot his commander in an apparent murder-suicide Friday, April 8, 2016, at a U.S. Air Force base in San Antonio, a senior U.S. official said.
FRANKFURT, April 8 (Reuters) - Germany's BMW launched on Friday a car-sharing service in Seattle, where it will offer customers the use of 370 BMW and Mini vehicles, before expanding to other cities in the United States.
Pope Francis releases a treatise calling for compassion towards "imperfect" Catholics.
Pope Francis releases a treatise calling for compassion towards "imperfect" Catholics.
Breakingviews columnists discuss the exit of CEO heir apparent Tom Staggs from the $160 bln entertainment giant and parallels to a messy succession that played out a decade ago.
Breakingviews columnists discuss the exit of CEO heir apparent Tom Staggs from the $160 bln entertainment giant and parallels to a messy succession that played out a decade ago.
Breakingviews columnists discuss the exit of CEO heir apparent Tom Staggs from the $160 bln entertainment giant and parallels to a messy succession that played out a decade ago.
Breakingviews columnists discuss the exit of CEO heir apparent Tom Staggs from the $160 bln entertainment giant and parallels to a messy succession that played out a decade ago.
Austin's police chief says 17-year-old Meechaiel Khalil Criner has been arrested and charged with the murder of University of Texas student Haruka Weiser. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - An inflatable human habitat was scheduled for launch to the International Space Station on Friday for a two-year test to see how the lightweight, fabric module compares with traditional orbiting enclosures made from metal, NASA said.
* Italian banks surge on likely state support (ADVISORY- Reuters plans to replace intra-day European and UK stock market reports with a Live Markets blog on Eikon (see cpurl://apps.cp./cms/?pageId=livemarkets for site in development). Adds closing prices)
* Italian banks surge on likely state support (ADVISORY- Reuters plans to replace intra-day European and UK stock market reports with a Live Markets blog on Eikon (see cpurl://apps.cp./cms/?pageId=livemarkets for site in development). Adds closing prices)
LONDON (Reuters) - Liverpool's England midfielder Jordan Henderson will be sidelined for six to eight weeks with a knee ligament injury, ruling him out for the rest of the Premier League season and possibly the Euro 2016 campaign.
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday moved to revoke approval of a drug used to treat certain conditions in pigs because it could leave a cancerous residue that may affect human health.