STOCKHOLM UK-born Oliver Hart and Finland-born Bengt Holmstrom won the 2016 Nobel Economics Prize for "their contributions to contract theory",...
[IMG] An armoured vehicle of Libyan forces allied with the U.N.-backed government is pictured during a battle with Islamic State militants in...
[IMG] Once-powerful Philippines Church divided, subdued over drug killings MANILA Catholic priests from the Philippines Church, an institution...
BERLIN German police said on Monday they had captured a man suspected of planning a bomb attack who had slipped through their grasp during a raid...
BRUSSELS The concerted response from Berlin, Paris and Brussels to British Prime Minister Theresa May's announcement last week of a March deadline...
DUBAI An air strike on a funeral wake, widely blamed on Saudi-led warplanes, poses more trouble for a Western-backed Arab campaign against Yemen's...
[IMG] A well-wisher holds a picture of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej at the Siriraj hospital where he is residing, in Bangkok, Thailand,...
[IMG] Trail goes cold in German hunt for man suspected of planning bomb attack BERLIN The trail went cold on Sunday in a German police manhunt...
[IMG] Russia says U.S. actions threaten its national security MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday he had detected...
STANYTSA LUHANSKA, Ukraine Ukraine's military on Sunday postponed a planned parallel withdrawal with pro-Russian separatists from Stanytsa...
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey Six Turkish soldiers were killed and seven people, including civilians, wounded on Sunday when a car bomb exploded near a...
MOSCOW Police shot dead eight militants in Chechnya in southern Russia around midnight on Saturday after the men, traveling in two cars, opened...
[IMG] North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) smiles as he guides a test fire of a new multiple launch rocket system in this undated photo released...
ISTANBUL Thirty one Islamic State militants have been killed in clashes and U.S.-led coalition air strikes in northern Syria over the last 24...
[IMG] Seven killed in Afghan helicopter crash: defence ministry KABUL An Afghan air force helicopter crashed in northern Afghanistan on Sunday,...
SANAA Saudi-led coalition aircraft fired rockets at mourners for the father of the interior minister in the Houthi-dominated Yemeni government on...
BEIRUT Syrian government forces recaptured territory from insurgents in several western areas on Saturday as the U.N. Security Council prepares to...
[IMG] Syrian government, allies advance before U.N. council votes BEIRUT Syrian government forces recaptured territory from insurgents in...
WASHINGTON An increase in activity at a North Korean satellite launch site could indicate preparations for a new test or other activities, a...
[IMG] Egypt expresses 'annoyance' with U.S. embassy over threat warning CAIRO Egypt's foreign ministry sharply criticized the U.S. Embassy in...
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