TORONTO—The Toronto stock market was lower Thursday as the European Central Bank moved to deal with the threat of deflation and give some lift to a...
CAIRO, Egypt—An Egyptian airport official says authorities have levied a new airport tax on tourists leaving the country, a move that has been criticized as being...
YANGON, Myanmar—A dragon fish with intricate, maze-like markings on every scale, a frog with rough, chocolate-colored skin and a ginger plant are among more than two...
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...
