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North Korea's Kim orders 80-day 'battle' to boost economy

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered a nationwide drive to boost the ailing economy ahead of a key party congress in January, state media reported Tuesday. The decision was made during a meeting of the ruling Workers' Party and comes as the coronavirus pandemic and recent floods have...

US stocks rise in pre-market amid Trump COVID-19 uncertainty

Wall Street futures climbed in pre-market trading Monday, with investors seemingly unperturbed by US President Donald Trump's hospitalization after announcing he'd tested positive for coronavirus last week. About an hour before trading was to begin, the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial...

Dubai builder of world's tallest building to be liquidated

The Dubai-based construction company that helped build the world's tallest building and other engineering marvels in the United Arab Emirates announced Thursday it would enter liquidation, the final step in a long collapse from the country's economic crisis a decade ago hastened by the...