Pope Benedict XVI did it. Dutch Queen Beatrix did it. So why is it so hard for Japan's elderly emperor to abdicate? Public broadcaster NHK reported last ...

Prime Minister Theresa May will on Tuesday outline her bid to reshape the British economy for a post-Brexit world, reviving the once unfashionable concept ...

Declaring his government firmly in control, a defiant Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday demanded the United States arrest or extradite an ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Members of India's low-caste Dalit community in Gujarat state have pledged to boycott the dirty jobs traditionally ...

One of two suspects in a church attack that left a priest dead in northern France was known to anti-terror authorities after attempting a trip to Syria, a ...

KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For Nabin Lama, leaving Nepal after his annual home leave to return to his construction job in Saudi Arabia is not ...

Indian drugmaker Lupin Ltd (LUPN.NS) said it had agreed to buy a portfolio of 21 drugs from Japan's Shionogi & Co Ltd (4507.T) for 15.4 billion yen ...

Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton emerges from her party's convention in Philadelphia with a restored lead over Donald Trump, having earned a 7-point ...

The weather gods gave West Indies a lifeline in their quest to avoid defeat in the second test against India when rain washed out the final session of day ...

A recent CMO Survey indicates that marketers plan to double their spending on social media in the next five years. Yet IBM’s C-Suite Study reports that ...