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NEW YORK (AFP) ― Less than three months after launching their takeover bid, Brazilian billionaires Jose Luis Cutrale and Joseph Safra snapped up U.S. banana …

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― IBM announced Monday it would offer its analytics platform and other technology for use in African countries affected by the Ebola …

The Bank of Japan will consider moderating its language on inflation in a report this week to take account of the impact of lower oil prices, according to …

WASHINGTON (AP) ― The global economy has slumped. Turmoil has gripped financial markets. And the U.S. job market, despite steady gains, still isn’t fully …

MOSCOW (AFP) ― Russia’s economy ministry warned on Monday that growth slowed in the third quarter and could contract in the fourth as the fallout from the …

LONDON (AFP) ― Britons had far less gum disease in the Roman era than today, and oral health has seriously worsened despite the advent of toothbrushes and …

As a little girl, Lee Mei Li longed to play with her elder sister’s Hello Kitty supermarket set, but to no avail ― she wasn’t even allowed to touch it. …

The spy show “All Quiet in Peking” has surprised everyone by infiltrating the top ranks of Chinese TV. Domestic TV productions have been losing younger …

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ― Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was reelected by the narrowest margin in three decades, handing her left-leaning Workers’ Party …

BRASILIA ― President Dilma Rousseff, a former leftist guerrilla once imprisoned and tortured by Brazil’s military regime, upheld her reputation for …