NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 jolted southeast of Honshu, Japan at 21:02:25 GMT on Thursday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, ...

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Three people were shot and one was stabbed on Christmas night in a shooting and stabbing incident at an international airport in Phoenix, the capital of the ...

ANKARA, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Türkiye's central bank on Thursday cut its benchmark interest rate by 250 basis points (bps) to 47.5 percent, marking its first rate cut in nearly two years.

VIENNA, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Two skiers died after being buried by an avalanche in the Austrian alpine state of Tyrol around midday Thursday, local authorities said.

More than half of California, and 62 percent of Los Angeles County, is either foreign-born or has at least one immigrant parent, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census data.

BELGRADE, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Serbia's Ministry of Defense announced significant upgrades to the armed forces in 2025 on Thursday, following a year of major investments in defense systems.

NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Low-income Americans who voted for Donald Trump say they are counting on him to keep their benefits intact even while his Cabinet picks and Republican lawmakers call on ...

President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to upend this strategy, pledging in November to impose 25 percent tariffs from Mexico and Canada, a move that could mean undoing the free-trade agreement he ...

The boys, aged between 12 and 14, were shot after trying to rob the man at gunpoint at an apartment complex in northwestern Houston after 10:30 p.m. Wednesday local time, Harris County Sheriff Ed ...

The S&P 500 would reach 6,666 points by the end of 2025 with earnings per share from S&P 500 member companies to grow by 13 percent next year, according to Savita Subramanian, BofA's chief U.S. equity ...

Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history, with the California Institute of Technology, in a university release ...

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "is deeply saddened" by the news of a plane crash in western Kazakhstan, his spokesperson said late Wednesday.