Nine dead in weekend surge of shootings in ChicagoAt least nine people were murdered in Chicago over the Independence Day weekend in an explosion of gun violence branded "simply unacceptable" by its mayor.
08 July 2014
GM to invest $740 mn in new Argentina factoryGeneral Motors will invest $740 million in Argentina through 2016 on its first South American factory turning out aluminum motors, Buenos Aires announced.
08 July 2014
Samsung Electronics flags 25% plunge in Q2 profitSamsung estimated Tuesday that its operating profit would plunge nearly 25 percent on year in the second quarter of 2014, as cheap Chinese devices and a strong won hammered down its share of the global smartphone market.
08 July 2014
Limping N. Korea leader leads memorial for Kim Il-SungA visibly limping Kim Jong-Un presided over an official memorial in Pyongyang on Tuesday for the 20th anniversary of the death of his grandfather and North Korea's founder, Kim Il-Sung.
Senior US diplomat 'unwelcome' by BahrainBahrain has told a senior US diplomat, who has met with representatives of the country's opposition, that he was "unwelcome" in the kingdom and should "leave immediately."
08 July 2014
Tributes from friends and foes after last Soviet FM diesFormer Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze, who helped end the Cold War as the Soviet Union's last foreign minister, died Monday aged 86, with tributes pouring in from friends and foes.
08 July 2014
Japan on highest typhoon alert, 480,000 urged to take shelterJapan braced Tuesday for one of its worst storms in years as typhoon Neoguri barrelled towards the southern Okinawa island chain, with the national weather agency issuing its highest alert and nearly half-a-million people urged to take shelter.
Kazakhstan ratifies Caspian security agreementPresident of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has endorsed a law on ratification of the agreement on security cooperation at the Caspian Sea.