Day wins Japan Skins as Woods emerges unscathed
Jason Day won the Japan Skins game on Monday but the real winner was probably Tiger Woods, who reported a clean bill of health in...
Reckoning with U.S. opioid crisis as $8 billion Ohio trial kicks off
The fight over who is responsible for the opioid epidemic that has ravaged the United States heads to court on Monday in Ohio as local...
Factbox: Billion-dollar lawsuits accuse drugmakers, distributors of fueling U.S. opioid crisis
On Monday, two Ohio counties will face off in a U.S. courtroom with five companies they accuse of fueling the nationwide opioid epidemic. The counties...
Factbox: The U.S. opioid epidemic by the numbers
Opioid deaths in the United States have soared over the last two decades, driving a wave of litigation against drugmakers and distributors....
U.S. not out to ‘decouple’ from China, defense official says in Beijing
The United States is not seeking to “decouple” from China and not asking any country to choose sides, a senior U.S. defense official said on...
Lebanon to cut ministers’ pay in bid to ease protester rage
Lebanon’s cabinet is expected to halve ministers’ wages on Monday among other reforms in a bid to ease an economic crisis and defuse the biggest...
Halliburton profit falls 32% on weak North America drilling
Oilfield services provider Halliburton Co reported a 32% slump in quarterly profit on Monday, hit by a slowdown in shale drilling in North America, its...
Top rubber producer Thailand hit by fungal disease outbreak
A key rubber tree-growing area in Thailand has been hit by an outbreak of a fungal disease, which could halve the area’s output, the country’s...
Hong Kong leader apologizes after mosque hit by police water cannon
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam apologized to the city’s Muslim community on Monday after police fired a water cannon at a major mosque during operations...
Apology accepted, Hong Kong’s Muslims lament water cannon staining mosque
Municipal workers scrubbed away noxious blue dye from the steps of Hong Kong’s biggest mosque on Monday, while Muslim worshippers expressed frustration over police firing...