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Four years ago in Mexico, China's new president provided a rare glimpse of a leader who was born into a revolutionary aristocracy and came of age in the tumult of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution.
On Thursday, Xi Jinping...
A regulatory battle over an offer to buy out shareholders in Orascom Construction Industries may inflict damage on the Egyptian Stock Exchange that lingers long after the country’s politics stabilize and the economy recovers.
Until recently,...
Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected in a surprise choice to be the new leader of the troubled Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday and said he would take the name Francis I.
Pope Francis, 76, appeared on the central balcony of St. Peter...
Egypt's strategic stocks of wheat have fallen to 2.207 million tons, enough to last 89 days, a Cabinet report said on Wednesday as the top global importer struggles to ensure supply through an economic and political crisis.
Economic turmoil and...
Egypt said on Wednesday it was easing limits on travelers bringing currency in and out of the country and said visiting foreigners could now carry more than US$10,000 as long as they declare it upon entering.
Egypt tightened currency controls in...
An Egyptian court will hear an appeal on Sunday against a ruling that led to the cancellation of parliamentary elections called by President Mohamed Morsy, the latest hurdle in the country’s tortuous political transition.
A body representing...
Nestle, the world's biggest food company, published on Wednesday a raft of social and environmental targets it aims to meet by 2020, including better labeling of its products, only using sustainable palm oil and cutting greenhouse gas emissions...
An Egyptian parliamentary panel decided on Monday to draw up a new election law, aiming to avoid delays after a court cancelled President Mohamed Morsy's decree calling for parliamentary elections in April.
The prospect of an election delay...
The driver of the bus in which a young Indian woman was gang-raped and fatally injured in December hanged himself in New Delhi's Tihar jail on Monday, officials said, a dramatic twist in a case that has provoked outrage across India.
Ram Singh...
The world's tropical forests are less likely to lose biomass, or plant material, this century due to the effects of global warming than previously thought, scientists said in a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience on Sunday.
This...
