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DAMASCUS (AFP) ― Syria’s regime is willing to meet the country’s opposition in Moscow to seek a way out of the nearly four-year civil war, a government …

A worker sorts packages at the UPS facility in Hodgkins, Illinois. ( Bloomberg) Amazon.com Inc. and other retailers are on pace to sell more products online …

An employee works in a manufacturing facility at ZTE’s headquarters in the Nanshan district of Shenzhen, China. (Bloomberg) China’s industrial profits fell …

Reserve Bank of India Gov. Raghuram Rajan. ( Bloomberg) NEW DELHI (AFP) ― India’s central bank chief lashed out at Uber, already under fire over the …

TOKYO (AP) ― Japan’s Cabinet approved 3.5 trillion yen ($29 billion) in fresh stimulus Saturday for the ailing economy, pledging to get growth back on …

Mastercard and Visa logos are pictured on credit cards in New York. (Bloomberg) Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., the world’s biggest payments networks, halted …

(AFP) A fish eye from a primitive time when Earth was but one single continent has yielded evidence of color vision dating back at least 300 million years, …

WASHINGTON (UPI) — According to recent polls, President Obama’s approval rating for his sixth year is higher than President Bush’s and close …

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Malaysian mogul Tony Fernandes, who transformed a floundering carrier into Asia’s biggest budget airline, faces his first …

BREDA, Netherlands (AFP) ― Dutch scientists are recreating the deaths of some of the world’s most famous personalities by reconstructing their last moments …