SAN FRANCISCO — Alibaba Group, the king of e-commerce in China, is dangling a deal that could turn into one of the biggest IPOs in history.
In a long-awaited move Tuesda...
Numbers revealed at U.N. hearing
GENEVA — The Vatican revealed Tuesday that over the past decade, it has defrocked 848 priests who raped or molested children and sanction...
DONETSK, Ukraine — Thirty pro-Russia insurgents and four government troops have been killed during operations to expunge anti-government forces around a key eastern city...
Students huddled on doomed ferry
SEOUL, South Korea — Soon after the ferry begins to tilt, nervous laughter can be heard from the high school students huddled below deck....
BAGHDAD — Iraqis braved the threat of bombs and attacks to vote today in key elections for a new parliament.
Hundreds of thousands of troops and police fanned out to gu...
But it rejects World Bank report
BEIJING — China has rejected a World Bank report that suggests it might pass the United States this year to become the biggest economy me...
They sign pact with Slovakia
Ukraine and Slovakia signed a natural gas transport deal Monday in what European officials hailed as the first step toward reducing Ukraine’s...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea conducted live-fire artillery drills near its disputed western sea boundary today, South Korean military officials said, in a possible i...
MANILA, Philippines — President Barack Obama ended a four-country swing through Asia and headed for home today, still confronting the challenge of how to deal with Russi...
Francis presides over sainthood ceremony
VATICAN CITY — Two 20th-century popes who changed the course of the Catholic Church became saints Sunday as Pope Francis honored ...
