U.S. President Barack Obama has said Washington welcomes China's rise but that engagement with Beijing would not come at the expense of its Asian allies - as Chinese state media greeted his arrival in the region with a broadside...
Australia and Malaysia vowed on Wednesday to keep searching for a missing Malaysian plane despite no sign of wreckage after almost seven weeks, and as bad weather again grounded aircraft and an undersea drone neared the end of its...
South Korean divers swam though dark, cold waters into a sunken ferry on Wednesday, feeling for children's bodies with their hands in a maze of cabins, corridors and upturned decks as they searched for hundreds of missing.
The divers, with...
Hong Kong on Wednesday scrapped travel sanctions against the Philippines after Manila offered an apology and compensation for a hostage tragedy almost four years ago, settling a lengthy diplomatic spat between the two.
Hong Kong and the Philippines have close...
Boeing Co reported an 8 percent increase in quarterly revenue, helped by a rise in commercial aircraft deliveries.
Revenue rose to $20.47 billion for the first quarter ended March 31 from $18.89 billion a year earlier.
Commercial aircraft deliveries rose 18...
Chinese factory activity shrank for the fourth straight month in April but private businesses across the euro zone enjoyed their best month in nearly three years, surveys showed on Wednesday.
Within the euro zone, Germany - Europe's largest economy -...
U.S. investment fund BlackRock (BLK.N) has lowered its stake in Italian lender Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS.MI) to 3.23 pct from 5.75 percent, according to a filing published by market regulator Consob on Wednesday.
The sale took place...
Dear President Jonathan:
We, the more than 200 victims of Boko Haram’s latest savage bomb attacks, feel we must write to you from beyond the grave. Our simple message is summed up in the phrase: Enough is enough.
As you know,...
It has been three days now since you claimed there was a new video out by late Abubakar Shekau. Where is this video? Nigerians are not dummies or fools, happy to be killed and destroyed further by propaganda of...
Sinister terror and hatred have again reached from the shadows to steal the lives of innocent Nigerians. In Nyanya, seventy-two people were killed by a car bomb. Hundreds more were injured in the devastation. Their killings served no purpose...