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DAVOS (AFP) ― Google boss Eric Schmidt predicted that the Internet will soon be so pervasive in every facet of our lives that it will effectively …

CARACAS (AFP) ― Demonstrators against Venezuela’s economic crisis ― facing sky-high inflation and shortages of food and consumer goods ― took to the …

BERLIN (AFP) ― The head of Germany’s central bank on Saturday voiced his “skepticism” about the ECB’s decision to launch a trillion-euro bond-buying …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) ― It’s showtime for Pluto. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is nearing the end of its nine-year journey to Pluto. On Sunday, …

Brussels (AFP) ― Intrepid boy hero Tintin stars at one of Europe’s top art fairs this week when the original cover of his 1942 “Shooting Star” …

European Central Bank policy makers Benoit Coeure and Ignazio Visco underlined that their new bond-buying program will be extended if it doesn’t show …

A measles outbreak centered around Disneyland in California has spread to six more US states and Mexico, and an international visitor to the theme park likely …

The highest-ranking US official to visit Cuba in three decades met with leading dissidents on Friday, but one prominent opposition figure stayed out amid …

A U.S. court on Friday jailed a “radicalized” Colorado teenager intercepted by the FBI when she attempted to join her fiance in the Islamic State …

Russia plans to bring together members of the Syrian regime and opposition in a new push to resuscitate talks on ending the country’s nearly four-year …