PRAGUE, Czech Republic—A court in the Czech capital has acquitted two former referees and a football official of bribery charges. Referee Tomas Adamek stood trial after...
SEOUL, South Korea—South Korea’s economic growth hit its highest level in three years in the first quarter, boosted by new home construction and exports of electronics....
ATLANTA—Travellers, after years of complaints, will have access to a free wireless Internet network at the world’s busiest airport. Officials say the network at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta...
MANAMA, Bahrain—A Bahraini court on Thursday convicted and sentenced four Shiites to life imprisonment over the death of an Asian man in a 2012 bomb attack,...
MANILA, Philippines—China has been reclaiming more land to bolster its military presence in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, where its increasing assertion of...
OTTAWA—Complaints to the federal information watchdog about access to government records climbed 30 per cent last year. In her annual report, Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault says...
MERIDA, Mexico—Jeremiah Tower plunged through the seafood aisles of this city’s central covered market, wrinkling his nose at a pile of limp grey sharks before his...
BRUSSELS, Belgium—President Barack Obama says it’s not his place to intervene in a U.S. investigation into France’s largest bank that could result in a multibillion-dollar fine....
ZURICH, Switzerland—Defending World Cup champion Spain will travel to Brazil as the No. 1 team in the FIFA rankings, and the host nation will kick off...
The world’s largest retailer faces new challenges at a time when low prices and one-stop shopping can be a few clicks away on a tablet computer...