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Ford to sell luxury Lincoln brand in China
Ford Motor Co., eager to grab a piece of China's growing luxury market, plans to start selling its Lincoln luxury brand here in 2014. It will be the ...
Markets stall as traders await US Fed chief speech
Stock markets retreated Tuesday due to global worries about the impact of the eurozone debt crisis and as investors awaited a key speech by the U.S.
Vestas in talks with Mitsubishi
Vestas Wind Systems A/S, the world's biggest maker of wind turbines, says it is in talk with Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries over possible ...
Chinese industrial profits fall in July
Profits at China's industrial companies tumbled in July for a fourth straight month, a sign of enduring economic weakness that adds to pressure on ...
Ford breaks ground on new plant in southwest China
Ford Motor Co. is building a sixth plant in China as part of an effort to increase its sales in the world's largest auto market. Ford CEO Alan Mulally ...
3 traffic accidents leave 56 dead in China
A commercial van slammed into a truck Monday in northwest China, killing nine people and bringing the overall death toll to 56 in three big accidents ...
Japan takes LLWS title, beats Tennessee 12-2
Fast friends in the Little League dorms, the boys from Japan and Tennessee played one last game Sunday to decide which team would be crowned World ...
Powerful typhoon lashes Japan's Okinawa island
More than 75,000 households lacked power on Monday after a powerful typhoon lashed the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, injuring four people but ...
Japan takes LLWS title, beats Tenn. 12-2
Arms outstretched in the air with a smile from ear-to-ear, Noriatsu Osaka couldn't contain his glee. Neither could his teammates from Tokyo after ...
Md. city fails to break bikini parade record
A city in China still holds the bikini parade record after a failed attempt in Maryland. Organizers of Saturday's effort in Ocean City to take the ...
Iran opens nonaligned summit with nuclear appeals
Iran opened a world gathering of self-described nonaligned nations Sunday with a slap at the U.N. Security Council and an appeal to rid the world of ...
Powerful typhoon approaches Japan's Okinawa island
The strongest typhoon to approach Okinawa in several years was bearing down on the southern Japanese island on Sunday as officials warned residents ...
Tenn. outlasts Calif. 24-16 in LLWS classic
Tennessee players threw their gloves in the air as they converged near third base before falling to the ground with big smiles. The exhaustive 24-16 ...
Apple's $1B patent verdict could corner market
It was the $1 billion question Saturday: What does Apple Inc.'s victory in an epic patent dispute over its fiercest rival mean for the U.S.
China's chaotic health care drives patient attacks
Dr. Chen Yuna had just eaten her lunch and was seated at her desk updating patients' medical records when a masked man entered her office. He pulled ...
SKorean court rules Samsung didn't copy iPhone
South Korean phone maker Samsung won a home court ruling Friday in its global patent battle against Apple and its popular iPhone and iPad devices.
Markets recover early losses on stimulus hopes
Global markets recovered from earlier losses on Friday on hopes that central banks will act to support their weakening economies. Economic indicators ...
Reports: 2 TV reporters missing in Syria are alive
In television footage of a van's interior, a journalist for a U.S.-funded network sits silently behind a Japanese correspondent who narrates to the ...
Court bans some Apple, Samsung products in SKorea
A South Korean court ruled Friday that technology giants Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. both infringed on each other's patents, and ordered ...
Typhoon batters southern Taiwan with wind, rain
A powerful typhoon made landfall in southern Taiwan before dawn Friday, toppling trees and dumping torrential rain that flooded farmlands but sparing ...
US: Missile defense for NKorea threat, not China
The United States is in discussions with close ally Japan about expanding a missile defense system in Asia, the top U.S. general said Thursday. Gen.
China is tough against Tokyo but reins in activism
Wu Qingjun is no dissident. In fact, this activist's pet issue — China's claim over a set of islands controlled by Japan — aligns him squarely with ...