A Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) engineer pleaded guilty on Friday to helping the German automaker evade U.S. emission standards, and his lawyer said he would cooperate with federal authorities in their criminal probe. James Liang, who has worked for VW since 1983 and was part of a team of...

An Iranian Revolutionary court has sentenced Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to five years in prison on charges that remain secret, her family said on Friday. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained in early April as she tried to leave Iran after a visit with her two-year-old...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday welcomed Turkey's increased efforts to fight Islamic State militants in Syria and said training local forces was the key to battling the hardline Sunni Muslim group. At a joint news conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu,...

The Syrian government has effectively stopped aid convoys this month and the besieged city of Aleppo is close to running out of fuel, making U.S.-Russian peace talks in Geneva on Friday even more urgent, the United Nations said. "Convoys are not rolling at the moment in Syria," the U.N....

Iran's steep oil output growth has stalled in the past three months, new data showed, suggesting Tehran might be struggling to fulfill its plans to raise production to new highs while demanding to be excluded from any OPEC deals on supply curbs. Iran's oil output soared to 3.64 million...

North Korea conducted a fifth ever nuclear test Friday morning, described by South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff as the reclusive state’s “biggest-ever” with a yield reaching 10 kilotons. The amount is almost double what Pyongyang claimed was a hydrogen bomb earlier this year. South...

Evenings across the U.S. this summer were balmier than any other summer since records began in 1895, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a report Thursday. NOAA defines summer as the three-month period between June and August in which the average low...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew into Geneva on Friday for a new round of talks with Russia on a Syrian ceasefire, with U.S. officials saying they believed a deal was still possible, but warning that the talks could not go on forever. Senior State Department officials briefing...

Bomb attacks in Thailand's south have injured two police officers and a villager two days after the killing of a four-year-old girl and her father provoked domestic and international indignation. The incidents were the latest in a series of violent incidents in the three majority Muslim...

Asian shares held within one-year peaks on Thursday as Chinese trade data topped forecasts and imports recorded their first annual rise since late 2014, a promising sign for global demand that gave the Australia dollar a lift. Beijing reported imports rose 1.5 percent in August from a year...

Presidential candidates of the two major parties, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, stepped on the same stage to answer questions from American military veterans during a unique televised forum that left a lot to be desired on specifics. Confronted by a rapid-fire round of questions from...

Kenyan workers involved in supplying khat were left wondering if their livelihood would ever return Thursday following Somalia’s sudden and unexplained ban on the mildly narcotic plant. The farmers, packers, transporters and wholesalers of khat, known as miraa in Kenya, were shocked Monday...

Apple Inc unveiled its new water and dust-resistant iPhone 7 with high-resolution cameras at its fall product event on Wednesday, and said a Super Mario game was coming to the new phone and Pokemon Go would feature on its upgraded Apple Watch. The excitement at the Bill Graham auditorium in...

The world will need 20 million barrels of oil every day to meet rising demand in the face of lower crude production, the president of oilfields services giant Halliburton said Wednesday. Regarding low oil prices and the hurdles in the global oil industry, Jeff Miller said capital...

Almost 50 million children throughout the world are "uprooted," forcibly displaced from their home countries by war, violence or persecution, the United Nations children's program said Wednesday. "Indelible images of individual children -- Aylan Kurdi's small body washed up on a beach after...

U.S. President Barack Obama floated the idea of joint action with Turkey to capture the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks published on Wednesday. Ankara would not object, Erdogan said. Turkey, which is battling a Kurdish insurgency...

(Bloomberg)- Gold held its biggest daily increase since June and traded near its highest in almost three weeks as the dollar weakened amid diminishing chances of a U.S. interest-rate rise in September. Bullion for immediate delivery was at $1,349.43 an ounce at 3:16 p.m. in Singapore, after...

A blueprint for a political transition in Syria, due to be presented by an opposition group in London on Wednesday, offers the first credible picture of a peaceful Syria without President Bashar al-Assad, Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said. The High Negotiations Committee, the...

WASHINGTON The U.S. is still not considering a no-fly zone in northern Syria as it might not help resolve the broader conflict in the war-torn country, President Barack Obama’s national security advisor said Tuesday. “We do not think a no-fly zone would resolve the fundamental issues on...

A suicide bomb attack on the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyz capital last week was ordered by Uighur militants active in Syria and carried out by a member of the East Turkestan Islamic movement, Kyrgyzstan's state security service said on Tuesday. The suicide bomber, whose car rammed the gates...