General News

New York (AFP) - The World Cup has sparked a surge of interest in football -- or soccer as most New Yorkers call it -- but exposed a shortage of...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - The El Nino weather pattern picked up strength over the past month and is highly likely to "rank among the largest" ever recorded when it...

New York (AFP) - Global stock markets were largely positive on Thursday as investors rediscovered their appetite for tech names and brushed off a new volley of strikes between the United...

Mashhad (Iran) (AFP) - Iranians were preparing on Thursday to bury their slain leader Ali Khamenei in his hometown of Mashhad in northeast Iran, as new US strikes threatened to...

Houston (AFP) - The son of a Mexican man fatally shot by US immigration officials in Texas demanded an investigation on Wednesday, with a leading civil rights group calling it...

New York (AFP) - The high-rise building under renovation that buckled in the heart of Manhattan, forcing the evacuation of thousands of local residents and workers, is now "stable," New...

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - A California man who swapped a library's 17th century Chinese manuscript for a fake was sentenced on Wednesday after admitting to stealing a major...

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Gritty medical drama "The Pitt" and inter-generational comedy "Hacks" on Wednesday topped the nominations for the Emmys, television's equivalent of the Oscars. "The Pitt"...

Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Here is a list of the nominees in key categories for the 78th Emmy Awards, which were announced in Los Angeles on Wednesday. "The...

New York (AFP) - Exiled Chinese entrepreneur Guo Wengui has appealed his 30-year US prison sentence for defrauding thousands of people of more than $1 billion, according to court records...