A leading pro-government activist was shot and wounded on Wednesday in Thailand's northeast, a stronghold of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, as a state of emergency began in the capital where protesters are trying to force her from power.
The morning...
Pope Francis is considering a trip to South Korea in August to meet with young Catholics, a Vatican spokesman said on Wednesday, in what would be his first visit to Asia where membership of the Church is increasing.
Father Federico...
(FROM L-R) FORMER HEAD OF THE JAPAN FEDERATION OF BAR ASSOCIATIONS KENJI UTSUNOMIYA, FORMER JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER MORIHIRO HOSOKAWA, FORMER HEALTH MINISTER YOICHI MASUZOE AND FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE JAPAN AIR SELF-DEFENSE FORCE TOSHIO TAMOGAMI
Former Japanese premier...
Cloud software maker VMWare Inc said it would buy mobile security company AirWatch for about $1.18 billion in cash and about $365 million in installment payments and assumed unvested equity.
AirWatch will become a unit of VMWare and its employees...
IBM Corp missed revenue expectations for the fourth consecutive quarter as the world's biggest technology services company grappled with weakening demand for its servers and storage equipment, particularly in growth markets like China.
As a result of the disappointing results,...
Motorola Solutions Inc, which makes walkie-talkies, rugged mobile computers and tablets, reported a 3 percent rise in quarterly revenue, helped by higher government sales.
Net income rose to $343 million, or $1.31 per share, for the fourth-quarter ended December 31,...
McDonald's France (MCD.N) has confirmed tax inspectors visited its local headquarters but denied wrongdoing after French media reported it had transferred over 2.2 billion euros ($3 billion) abroad since 2009 to dodge taxes.
The French arm of the U.S. hamburger...
Federal Reserve policymakers will likely leave intact their delicately worded easy-money message when they meet next week, despite a surprisingly sharp drop in U.S. unemployment that threatens to make a central part of that message irrelevant.
Top Fed officials believe...
Prior to his predicted ouster last Thursday, erstwhile national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, was seen–rightly or wrongly - as the clog in the wheel of the party’s progress. The all-powerful governors within the party...
One of the challenges facing an average citizen of this country is shelter. Previous administrations, since independence, have attempted, to no avail, tackling the matter. The establishment of Mortgage Banks to deal with the challenges of providing shelter to...
Describing the allegations as entirely false, Adedeji said they were the handiwork of individuals determined to discredit him and weaken public confidence in the Tinubu administration.
