Mexico's government has cut its 2015 budget by nearly 3 percent after a drop in global prices hurt public finances, and it is shelving a tainted $3.75 billion high-speed train tender as part of its austerity measures.
A foreigner was allegedly among the fatalities in the recent gunbattle that killed 49 police officers and 18 Muslim militants in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, a Muslim group said on Sunday.
The Japanese, who inhabit one of the safest countries in the world, have been reminded in a brutal fashion that the world is a dangerous place.
The National Football League, which will crown its champion on Sunday in the quintessential American sporting spectacle of Super Bowl 49, is gaining fans globally - with China leading the way.
Bath or bar?: Despite being at the top of her game for a decade, Maria Sharapova admits she still gets nervous at big tournaments.
A group of black civil rights activists was exonerated on Wednesday in the United States, more than 50 years after being condemned to hard labor for sitting in a whites-only area of a restaurant.
Renowned for a scarcity of taxis and for grumpy drivers, Paris is fertile ground for new transportation apps such as Uber, but traditional cabbies are not giving up without a fight.
Uber has failed to win a license to resume operations in New Delhi after one of its drivers allegedly raped a female passenger in the Indian capital last month, an official said on Thursday.
The co-pilot of an AirAsia flight that crashed into the Java Sea last month was at the controls of the plane when it went down, killing all 162 people on board, investigators said on Thursday.
Indonesia is ready to execute seven foreign drug convicts after their appeals for presidential clemency were rejected, an official said, in a move certain to set Jakarta on a collision course with international allies.
A human skull thought to be about 55,000 years old has provided evidence that human beings were in the same place at the same time as Neanderthals and may have even interbred with them, scientists said on Wednesday.
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