SALES rose this year during the holiday shopping season even as Americans wrestled with elevated prices for many groceries and other necessities, according to new data. Holiday sales from the ...

NEW DELHI—Authorities in India have declared a seven-day mourning period to honor Manmohan Singh, officials said Friday, as politicians and public paid tributes to the country’s former prime minister ...

Pope Francis on December 24 inaugurated the 2025 Holy Year, reviving an ancient church tradition encouraging the faithful to make pilgrimages to Rome. One of the symbolic images of every Jubilee is ...

AMID the rise in trade-restrictive measures and geopolitical uncertainties, the Philippines is ramping up its efforts to forge more free-trade agreements (FTAs) to expand its market access and ...

CHINA is pressing ahead with plans to construct a mega-dam near its contested border with India, a colossal undertaking that could generate three times as much power as the Three Gorges Dam. The ...

OSAMU Suzuki, who ran Suzuki Motor Corp., known for its minicars and motorcycles, for five decades and drove the company’s global expansion, has died. He was 94. Suzuki died of lymphoma on December 25 ...

THE Thai government’s campaign to pressure the Bank of Thailand to cut interest rates suffered a significant setback, with the Office of the Council of State effectively ruling that the official ...

WASHINGTON—Changes are coming to the cold and cough aisle of your local pharmacy: US officials are moving to phase out the leading decongestant found in hundreds of over-the-counter medicines, ...

Hanukkah—also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew—is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional ...

I’ll get you, my pretty! And your little pygmy hippo, too! Forgive us the shameless attempt to link the fantasy hit Wicked to the delightful Moo Deng. But, hear us out—there’s something the two have ...

The world’s nations keep faltering in their efforts to join together to save the planet from several environmental crises. In the past few months United Nations-sponsored negotiations to tackle ...

THE Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) emphasized the importance of fostering innovation and collaboration in higher education to enhance the global competitiveness of Filipino students and ...