TOKYO — A massive sell-off on Wall Street and escalating fears of a global recession sent Asian stocks plunging today, with Japan's benchmark index plunging more than 10...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — France's Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature today for works characterized by "poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy."...
BEIJING — More than 10,000 children remained hospitalized after being sickened in China's tainted milk scandal, eight of whom were in serious condition, officials said.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Two Americans and a U.S.-based Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their discovery and development of a protein that literally il...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Two Japanese citizens and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries that help explain the behavior of the smallest particles of...
Crisis fears hit Asia, Europe
LONDON — Asian and European stock markets plunged Monday as government bank bailouts in the U.S. and Europe failed to alleviate fears that t...
Financial crisis slows demand
SINGAPORE — Oil prices fell to an eight-month low below $90 a barrel on speculation that the spreading financial crisis will exacerbate a gl...
$6.5 billion arms deal approved
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou welcomed Saturday a U.S. decision to sell the island up to $6.5 billion in advanced weapo...
Lethal bombings blamed on leader
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military said Saturday it has killed an al-Qaida in Iraq leader suspected of masterminding one of the deadliest attack...
Attack targeted Taliban militants
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Militants on Saturday buried the bodies of Arab comrades who were among at least 20 people killed when susp...
