Hong Kong protesters plan busy Mid-Autumn Festival
Hong Kong activists plan to combine pro-democracy protests with traditional lantern celebrations marking the Mid-Autumn Festival this weekend, after a brief lull in sometimes violent...
Saudi princess complicit in beating up worker in luxury Paris flat: French court
The daughter of the King of Saudi Arabia was complicit in beating up and briefly kidnapping a workman in her luxury flat Paris, a French...
Up to 50 dead in Congo after train derails
Up to 50 people were killed when a cargo train derailed in Congo’s southeastern province of Tanganyika in the early hours of Thursday, government officials...
Trial of accused Christchurch gunman delayed in New Zealand to avoid Ramadan
The trial of a man accused of shootings at two mosques in New Zealand that killed 51 people has been delayed by a month because...
Warplanes strike Syria’s Idlib despite ceasefire – monitor, residents
Air strikes hit parts of Syria’s Idlib on Thursday, a monitor and residents said, despite a ceasefire that had halted a fierce army offensive in...
Wall Street opens higher on tariff delays, ECB stimulus
U.S. stocks opened on Thursday after the United States delayed scheduled tariff hikes on billions worth of Chinese imports, and the European Central Bank cut...
Stocks and bonds rally as ECB unleashes new stimulus
European stocks climbed on Thursday to their highest in seven weeks and bond yields tumbled as the European Central Bank’s new stimulus measures and mutual...
U.S. core inflation firms in August; weekly jobless claims fall
U.S. underlying consumer prices increased solidly in August, leading to the largest annual gain in a year, but rising inflation is unlikely to deter the...
Mexico says migrant numbers will fall further, wants no clash with U.S.
Mexico’s foreign minister said on Thursday he expected the number of U.S.-bound migrants to fall further and that it was in his country’s interest to...
Egyptian masseur plays with fire to ease muscle pain
An Egyptian masseur plays with fire to relieve his clients’ muscle pain at his spa in the Nile Delta governorate of Gharbeya....
