Skyrocketing commercial rents exacerbated by a high cost of living in the Bay Area have taken a toll on some restaurant owners in San Francisco, forcing them to cope with a shrinking bottom line.
FRANKFURT AM MAIN - Germany's respected news weekly Der Spiegel stunned the media world on Wednesday by revealing that one of its award-winning reporters had for years falsified stories.
China National Heavy Duty Truck Group aims to build its brand into a world-class one abreast of thriving international companies such as Daimler, Benz and Volvo, according to Tan Xuguang, the group's chairman.
GENEVA - Russia, Turkey, Iran and the United Nations have voiced hope that a committee charged with writing a new Syrian Constitution will start work early next year.
Belgium's Prime Minister Charles Michel announced his resignation on Tuesday, the International Day for Migrants, over his controversial support for a UN migration agreement.
BERLIN - Worker-starved Germany plans to ease immigration rules to attract foreign jobseekers and replenish its fast aging workforce, despite mounting public resistance against new arrivals.
FLORENCE, Italy - Five hundred years after the death of Leonardo da Vinci, a silk mill incorporating one of his designs is still shuttling some of the finest threads in the world across its looms.
A $10.6 billion aid package from the United States to Mexico and Central America could relieve immigration pressure to some extent, Chinese experts said, but a permanent solution will require multilateral cooperation from governments.
WASHINGTON - An intensifying spending standoff sent US lawmakers scrambling on Monday to avert a partial government shutdown, with Republican and Democratic leaders deadlocked over US President Donald Trump's demands for border wall funding.
TOKYO - Japan's government revised down its forecasts for economic growth and consumer prices for the current and next fiscal years as natural disasters and weakening export demand weighed on the economy, the Cabinet Office said on Tuesday.
NEW YORK/KUALA LUMPUR - Goldman Sachs Group Inc on Tuesday accused the former Malaysian government and state fund 1MDB of lying to the bank, after Kuala Lumpur charged the Wall Street titan over a massive financial scandal.
WASHINGTON - A spate of US airstrikes against extremists in Somalia is the latest in a dramatic uptick in US attacks in the Horn of Africa nation since President Donald Trump took office.
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