Media mogul Oprah Winfrey did not say she was running for president, but she didn't rule it out either, raising the unlikely prospect of a titanic celebrity-on-celebrity duel with Donald Trump in...
The company's shares fell more than 9 percent in premarket trading. Best Buy Co In (BBY. N), the No. 1 U.S. electronics retailer, reported an unexpected decline in holiday-quarter same-store sales on...
Hotel security guards are among 33 people facing charges that they failed to help tourists during 2015's deadly attack on a beach in Sousse, Tunisian officials say. They are accused of not assisting...
U. S. President Donald Trump's administration is preparing to ignore any rulings by the World Trade Organization that it sees as an affront to U.S. sovereignty, the Financial Times reported on...
The dollar and U. S. Treasury yields jumped on Wednesday, while stocks were mixed, as investors focused less on U.S. President Donald Trump's first speech to Congress and more on what they see as a...
Uber boss Travis Kalanick has apologised after a video emerged of him repeatedly swearing at one of the company's drivers. The outburst came after Fawzi Kamel, who was driving the chief executive,...
Mexico's telecoms regulator has discussed forcing billionaire Carlos Slim to legally separate part of his fixed-line company Telmex from the rest of the company, three people familiar with the matter...
When Gambian intelligence officers arrested journalist Ebrima Manneh at his newspaper, he asked an office guard to save some tea. "I'm coming right back," he said, according to colleague Alhagie...
Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross is expected to be easily confirmed as U. S. Commerce Secretary on Monday, clearing President Donald Trump's top trade official to start work on renegotiating trade...
Mr. Francis Kokutse, the West Africa’s correspondent for the India-based Indo Asian News Service (IANS), has joined the race for the Vice-President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) in the...
"Most notably in the West, it's not uncommon to see a home come off the market within a month," Yun Contracts to buy previously owned U. S. homes dropped in January on a shortage of inventory in the...
Wall Street drifted lower on Monday, starting the week in negative territory after the Dow's record streak of all-time highs. Trading got underway with investors awaiting any specifics on fiscal...
Oil prices rose on Monday as investors showed record confidence in prices rising further, though gains were capped by the prospect of faster growth in U. S. oil production. Brent crude oil LCOc1 rose...
A senior opposition negotiator at Syria peace talks in Geneva said on Monday his delegation would meet Russian foreign ministry officials later in the day to discuss promises that Moscow had not...
Two giant pandas at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo mated for the first time in four years Monday -- a 52-second effort that boosted hopes for a baby as well as shares in a nearby Chinese restaurant. Public viewing...
UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic have prevented heavily armed militia launching an attack on the town of Bambari. A spokesman for the UN peacekeeping mission, Vladimir Monteiro, said...
US President, Donald Trump, has announced he will not attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on 29 April. The glitzy event draws celebrities, journalists and politicians,...
Asian markets kicked the week off with broad losses Monday, with Tokyo hit by a stronger yen, as the global Trump rally shows signs of fragility ahead of a key speech by the new president to...
President Donald Trump’s administration is soliciting ideas from contractors on how to build its promised wall between the U. S. and Mexico, a first tangible step toward delivering on the...
Russia has released anti-Kremlin activist Ildar Dadin from a Siberian prison, freeing the first person jailed under new rules that made some forms of non-violent protest a criminal offence, his...
