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The Emirati president-designate of the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate talks has called on oil and gas companies to be “central to the solution” to fighting climate change, even as the industry boosts its production to enjoy rising energy prices

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has inaugurated Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway, which begins its commercial operations on Monday, a key project under China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative that will drastically cut the travel time ...

Late-night talk shows are returning after a five-month absence brought on by the Hollywood writers strike

Asian shares are mostly higher in thin trading with many markets closed for holidays

With control over some of his most prized real estate holdings in jeopardy, former President Donald Trump says he will make a rare, voluntary trip to court Monday for the start of a civil trial in a lawsuit that has already resulted in a judge ruling t...

Business sentiment among big Japanese manufacturers improved in July-September for the second straight quarter, according to a central bank survey

Demand for critical minerals like nickel and cobalt is surging as climate change hastens a transition to renewable energy, boosting carbon emissions by miners and processors of such materials

Federal appeals court temporarily halted a venture capital firm’s grant program.

Federal student loan borrowers will need to start making payments again this month after a three-year-plus pause due to the pandemic

Federal student loan borrowers will need to start making payments again this month after a three-year-plus pause due to the pandemic

Zimbabwe's vice president says the death toll from a shaft collapse at a disused gold mine could rise to 13

Nigeria’s leader has increased the wages of some government workers in last-minute efforts to appease labor unions whose planned strike this week could shut down government offices in all sectors of Africa’s largest economy

Yemen’s state-run carrier says it has suspended the only air route out of the country's rebel-held capital to protest Houthi restrictions on its funds

Britain's governing Conservative Party is gathering for its annual conference

As hundreds of homes burned in Lahaina, the only community in West Maui reserved for Hawaiians emerged almost unscathed from the wildfire that killed at least 97 people

As hundreds of homes burned in Lahaina, the only community in West Maui reserved for Hawaiians emerged almost unscathed from the wildfire that killed at least 97 people

The judge deciding the future of former President Donald Trump’s real estate empire has driven a taxi cab, played in a band and protested the Vietnam War

In a remote, dry patch of California, a battle is raging over carrots.

Indonesia is preparing to launch Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway, a key project under China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative

The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.04 billion after no one beat the immense odds and won the giant prize

When Yared Markos moved to London a quarter century ago, he didn't see any Ethiopian coffee shops

California governor rejects bill to give unemployment checks to striking workers

California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejects bill that would have given unemployment checks to some striking workers

The Panama Canal is reducing the maximum number of ships allowed to travel the waterway to 31 per day due to a drought that has cut the supply of fresh water needed to operate the locks

A federal agency has sued Chipotle, accusing it of religious harassment and retaliation

The legal fights between Disney and Gov. Ron DeSantis ratcheted up this week

Apple is blaming a software bug and other issues tied to popular apps such as Instagram and Uber for causing its recently released iPhone 15 models to heat up and spark complaints about becoming too hot to handle

Several people were injured after the Flying Scotsman steam locomotive crashed.

Libyan authorities say commercial flights to and from Italy have resumed for the first time in a decade

Millions of Americans must start repaying their federal student loans again in October, with monthly payments averaging hundreds of dollars

Armenia's government says an ethnic Armenian exodus has nearly emptied Nagorno-Karabakh of residents since Azerbaijan attacked and ordered the breakaway region’s militants to disarm

Cyprus is hailing a two-notch upgrade by credit ratings agency Moody’s that has brought the east Mediterranean island nation back into investment-grade territory a decade after a financial crisis left the country on the brink of bankruptcy

The Emirati president-designate for the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate conference has offered a full-throated defense of his nation hosting the talks

Ukraine has hosted an international defense industry conference as part of a government effort to ramp up weapons production within the country to repel Russia’s full-scale invasion

Ukraine has hosted an international defense industry conference as part of a government effort to ramp up weapons production within the country to repel Russia’s full-scale invasion

An official Chinese survey says the country's factory activity has recorded its first expansion in six months

An official Chinese survey says the country's factory activity has recorded its first expansion in six months

The threat of a federal government shutdown ended late Saturday night after Congress approved a temporary funding bill to keep federal agencies open until Nov. 17

The White House has pinned the blame for a possible government shutdown on House Republicans who, until Saturday, had been paralyzed by their inability to pass a funding package

Streaming giant Netflix has closed the curtains on its DVD-by-mail service.

A look at the numbers behind the end of Netflix's DVD service, with the last DVDs mailed out Friday.

Major League Baseball’s Houston Astros and the NBA’s Houston Rockets announced on Friday that they’ve acquired AT&T SportsNet Southwest from Warner Bros

A former Staples Inc. executive whose fraud and bribery convictions in the sprawling college admissions cheating scandal were thrown out by an appeals court has been sentenced to six months of home detention for a tax offense

A federal court ordered the owners of 14 Subway locations north of San Francisco to pay employees nearly $1 million in damages and back pay — and also to sell or shut their businesses, with any sale proceeds going to the Labor Department

A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service has been charged with leaking tax information to news outlets about thousands of the country’s wealthiest people

Wall Street closed out its worst month of the year with more losses

Drivers may see some relief at the end of October.

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for November delivery fell 92 cents to $90.79 a barrel Friday

Head Start programs serving more than 10,000 disadvantaged children would immediately lose federal funding if the government shutdown isn't averted

A last-ditch Republican funding effort collapses in the House, leaving the government on the verge of a shutdown