A CANADIAN business linked to billionaire Malaysian politician Abdul Taib Mahmud will face court in Toronto over alleged money laundering. The Swiss anti-corruption NGO Bruno Manser Fund (BMF) is suing three Canadian banks and an auditing firm to disclose financial information regarding the CAD250....

BURMA’S State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi’s much-anticipated address to the nation on Tuesday has been met with a cool response from the international community, with human rights groups and foreign diplomats accusing the de facto leader of "untruths and victim blaming”.

Walmart won't be doing large-scale holiday hiring at its stores this year. Instead, like last year, it will offer extra hours to its current workers. The nation's largest private employer says, however, that it will be taking on more temporary workers at its distribution centers.

MIAMI Sept. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- After a record-breaking summer, Telemundo is set to make ratings history ending the 2016-2017 broadcast season as the #1 Spanish-language television network in weekday 8pm-11pm primetime among the highly-coveted adults 18-49 (858,000) and adults 18-34 (398,000), according to Nielsen.

The project, funded by a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, surveyed a national sample of over 500 decision makers in K-12 school districts to examine the process by which they made curriculum adoption decisions and the extent to which open educational resources (OER), freely....

Fitch: Singer Sri Lanka rating unaffected by shareholder change Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 09:42 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Sept 20, Colombo: Fitch Ratings says Hayleys PLC's acquisition of a controlling stake in Singer (Sri Lanka) PLC (Singer, A-(lka)/Stable) is neutral for Singer's rating.

Sept. 19 (UPI) -- The Russian government unveiled a monument Tuesday to honor the inventor of one of the most highly used deadly weapons in human history: the AK-47 assault rifle. The 30-foot statue of Mikhail Kalashnikov , who created the first design of the AK-47, also known as the Kalashnikov, will stand in one of Moscow's business districts.

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A group of powerful California farmers pulled their support Tuesday from a pair of massive, $16 billion tunnels that would have re-engineered the state’s water system in a decisive move that dealt a major blow to the project pushed by Gov. Jerry Brown.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Was it a bluff? A warning that Washington would shoot down North Korea’s next missile test? A simple restatement of past policy? Officials and pundits across Asia struggled Wednesday to decode President Donald Trump’s threat to “totally destroy North Korea” if provoked.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Latest on the strong earthquake that hit Mexico City (all times local): 11:00 p.m. Mexico’s president says 22 people have died at a school that collapsed in the nation’s capital due to Tuesday’s 7.1 earthquake. President Enrique Pena Nieto said that two of the bodies found were adults.

'We don’t see the need for another joint venture partner.' 'We have capability, skills, scale and understand the business.' 'You should look at general insurance over a two-three year horizon.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Reuters. Bhargav Dasgupta bottom left , managing director and chief executive....

09:09 Flight operations at the Mumbai airport remain affected for the second day today following heavy rains that continue to lash the metropolis. The skidding of a SpiceJet aircraft on the main runway (09/27) last night compounded the problem further as it forced the private airport operator to....

CNN cameras go inside the secretive nation to places few outsiders have ever seen. Ever wondered what life must be for citizens inside the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, aka North Korea? As tensions near boiling point ( CNN International Correspondent Will Ripley -- who has been to North....

What is the meaning of body dysmorphic disorder? According to the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS), 'Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is an anxiety disorder that causes a person to have a distorted view of how they look and to spend a lot of time worrying about their appearance.

There was, however, no immediate comment from the focus of Trump's belligerence: North Korea held its tongue in the hours after the U.S. president's speech. In a region well used to North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons generating a seemingly never-ending cycle of threats and counter threats, Trump's comments Tuesday at the U.