Despite having no experience in central banking, the incoming head of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde is a good choice for Europe and is qualified for the job, Chinese analysts said.
NEW YORK - A power outage crippled the tourist-filled heart of Manhattan just as Saturday night Broadway shows were set to start, sending theatergoers spilling into siren-filled streets, knocking out Times Square's towering electronic screens and bringing subway lines to a near halt.
PORT SAID, Egypt - When Mohamed Ghaly's workshop was reduced to rubble in February, he never imagined that a new cultural center dedicated to a musical instrument with Pharaonic roots would thrive just months later.
PARIS - With the wind rushing through their hair, they zip past on bikes, electric scooters and mono-wheels, effortlessly passing lines of hot-and-bothered drivers stuck in the endless Paris traffic.
WASHINGTON - Three rovers, six US national flags, dozens of probes that either landed successfully or crashed, tools, cameras and trash: the Moon is dotted with hundreds of objects as a result of space exploration.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - Tropical Storm Barry gathered strength on Friday as it chugged toward waterlogged New Orleans, which girded for heavy rains, storm surge and flooding that pose a threat reminiscent of 2005's deadly Hurricane Katrina.
A Chinese property developer has ensured the beer will continue to flow at England's oldest continuous brewing site through a major development project in Southwest London.
WASHINGTON - Artificial intelligence programs have bested humans in checkers, chess, Go and two-player poker, but multi-player poker was always believed to be a bigger ask. Mission: accomplished.
ATHENS - A new study on two fossilized human skulls discovered in southern Greece in the late 1970s could reveal details of human migration in Eurasia, Greek media reported on Thursday.
TEHERAN/DUBAI - Iran called on the United States on Friday to immediately release an oil tanker that British Royal Marines seized last week on suspicion it was breaking European sanctions by taking oil to Syria, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman told state news agency IRNA.
The Federal Reserve could cut interest rates later this month in an effort to offset slowing global growth and uncertainty created by the ongoing US-China trade dispute, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said on Thursday.
SEOUL - The Republic of Korea said on Friday that it wants an investigation by the United Nations or another international body as it continues to reject Japanese claims that Seoul could not be trusted to faithfully implement sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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