Hong Kong’s leader announced a cut to liquor tax as the Asian financial hub hopes to revive its reputation as a travel destination with a vibrant nightlife and dining scene.
Shares are mostly lower in Asia after U.S. stocks pulled back from their records. Tokyo's Nikkei index fell 1.8%, leading the ...
Cellphone chats have become death sentences in the continuing, bloody factional war inside the Sinaloa drug cartel. Cartel gunmen stop youths on the street or in their cars and demand ...
The hidden annex where the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank hid from Nazi occupiers during World War II is heading to New York. A full-scale replica of the rooms that ...
Canada has arguably the world’s most permissive system of euthanasia. That's the practice of doctors and nurse practitioners killing patients with an injection of drugs at their request. Canada allows ...
Years of conflict in eastern Congo have created a dire mental health crisis. Aid groups say the number of people seeking care has spiked as fighting intensifies. Some of the ...
A homeless man refusing long-term care, a woman with severe obesity, grieving widows. Each euthanasia request sparked debate ...
Viewed from above, Canada's newest Marine Protected Area (MPA) is deceptively simple: stretches of blue Pacific Ocean waters ...
Down a dirt track in Colombia, deep in a forest, conservationists are breeding prized exotic frogs to try to undercut ...
Plans to remove stray cats from a historic site in Puerto Rico's capital San Juan have hit a snag, after animal rights groups ...
At least two TV channels in a northern Afghan province stopped showing images of living beings during their broadcasts, ...
LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the U.K. has fallen to its lowest level for more than three years, official figures showed Wednesday, a drop that has cemented market expectations that the Bank of England ...