Winds that have fanned California's wildfires have calmed, helping firefighters contain blazes that have destroyed homes and forced mass power outages since late last month. "We've really seen the end of it," said Patrick Burke, a meteorologist with the National Weather Serices's (NWS)...

Rafael Nadal's return to the world number one position for the eighth time in his career was confirmed when the ATP rankings were released on Monday. The Spaniard leapfrogs Novak Djokovic even though the Serb sealed his fifth Paris Masters title on Sunday with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over...

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said licenses for U.S. companies to sell components to China’s Huawei Technologies Co will come “very shortly,” in an interview with Bloomberg published on Sunday. Ross said the licenses “will be forthcoming very shortly” and that the U.S....

Authorities in the Indian capital on Monday banished from the roads cars with number plates ending in an odd number in a bid to cut hazardous air pollution shrouding the city. The U.S. Embassy air quality index, which measures the concentration of tiny PM 2.5 particles, exceeded 500,...