Lunch meat maker Hormel orders up Skippy sandwich
Hormel Foods apparently has a hankering for a peanut butter and bacon sandwich. The company primarily known for Spam and other cured, smoked and deli ...
Video fuels rumor NKorean leader's wife gave birth
The seemingly pregnant belly sported by the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in mid-December appeared to be gone by New Year's Day. That's sent ...
Asian stocks rise on momentum from US budget deal
Asian stock markets rose again Thursday on a second day of momentum from Washington's agreement preventing the U.S. from going off the so-called ...
Activist asks public to visit China Nobel wife
Chinese activists urged the public on Wednesday to visit dissident Liu Xiaobo's wife to highlight that she has been under house arrest since her ...
NKorea's Kim wants better living standards, arms
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday called for improving the economy and living standards of his impoverished nation with the same urgency that ...
Markets calm despite looming fiscal cliff
Markets appeared Monday to take in stride the ongoing failure of U.S. politicians to agree to a budget deal in time to avoid automatic tax increases ...
Stocks lower ahead of US 'fiscal cliff' talks
European and U.S. shares traded lower on Friday on waning hopes that U.S. President Barack Obama and key lawmakers would manage to reach an 11th-hour ...
China requiring people to visit their aged parents
Visit your parents. That's an order. So says China, whose national legislature on Friday amended its law on the elderly to require that adult children ...
Champagne loses fizz in Europe after tough year
Europeans are finding fewer reasons to pop open a bottle of Champagne as another year of economic troubles and high unemployment saps the region's ...
AP Exclusive: Photos show NKorea nuclear readiness
North Korea has repaired flood damage at its nuclear test facility and could conduct a quick atomic explosion if it chose, though water streaming out ...
Asian stocks up ahead of US 'fiscal cliff' talks
Asian stock markets rose Friday, hours before President Barack Obama and key lawmakers were to meet at the White House to try to hammer out an ...
China tightening controls on Internet
China's new communist leaders are increasing already tight controls on Internet use and electronic publishing following a spate of embarrassing online ...
New Japan PM: Saving economic crisis top mission
Shinzo Abe took office as Japan's seventh prime minister in six years Wednesday and vowed to overcome the deep-rooted economic and diplomatic crises ...
Chinese scholars push for mild political reform
More than 70 prominent Chinese scholars and lawyers have urged the country's new Communist Party leaders to undertake moderate political reforms ...
Pope's Christmas message focuses on Mideast, China
In his Christmas message to the world Tuesday, Pope Benedict XVI called for an end to the slaughter in Syria and for more meaningful negotiations ...
People flee Japan nuke disaster to faraway Okinawa
Okinawa is about as far away as one can get from Fukushima without leaving Japan, and that is why Minaho Kubota is here. Petrified of the radiation ...
NKorea says it has detained a US citizen
North Korea said Friday that an American citizen has been detained after confessing to unspecified crimes, confirming news reports about his arrest ...
US budget negotiations setback drives stocks down
A failed attempt find a compromise in U.S. budget negotiations sent global stock markets plummeting Friday, as investors feared the world's largest ...
Redknapp hopes to entice Anelka back to EPL at QPR
Queens Park Rangers is targeting former Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka in the January transfer window. The former France international left the ...
AP PHOTOS: A photo journey through North Korea
My window on North Korea is sometimes, quite literally, a window — of a hotel room, the backseat of a car, a train. Fleeting moments of daily life ...
Asia stocks fall as US budget negotiations stall
Heightened uncertainty about the outcome of budget negotiations in Washington among President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner and other ...
Nations worry US trade could turn protectionist
The United States' trade partners are worried that any fiscal belt-tightening could make the country more likely to introduce protectionist measures, ...
UBS to pay $1.5 billion over interest rate rigging
The U.S. Justice Department says an international investment bank will pay more than $1.5 billion in penalties in three nations to resolve charges of ...
BP selling stake in big Chinese gas field
British oil company BP says it is selling its stake in a South China Sea gas field to Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company for $308 million ...
Asia stocks rise over US budget deal optimism
Asian stock markets rose Wednesday after U.S. political leaders appeared to be closing in on a budget deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" by the year-end ...
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