May2018

Dean Jones, in his day one of the biggest-hitting batsmen in cricket, has called for fresh innovation in Twenty20 by creating a new eight-run shot if the ball goes more than 85 metres. T20 has already...

Japanese teen Nasa Hataoka pressed her quest for a first LPGA tour title Friday, firing a four-under par 68 to take a one-shot lead midway through the Volvik Championship in Michigan. Hataoka, whose back-to-back top-10 finishes...

Catalan filmmaker Carla Simon remembers little of the day that, aged six, she joined the ranks of countless orphans left behind by Spain’s “lost generation” of AIDS victims. Her parents were among 50,000 Spaniards who contracted...

Colombia will next week formally become NATO’s first Latin American “global partner,” President Juan Manuel Santos announced Friday. Santos, who won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end a half-century of armed conflict...

PepsiCo Inc said on Friday it would buy baked fruit and vegetable snack maker Bare Foods Co, as the food and beverage company expands its fast-growing healthy snack portfolio. Bare Foods, founded in 2001 in a...

Global oil prices fell on Friday after top producer Saudi Arabia signaled a likely boost in supply as soon as the third quarter, and world stock markets were mixed over the sudden US move to cancel...

Nissan showed the Nissan LEAF Open Car, an open-air version of the new Nissan LEAF, in Tokyo. The 100% electric car was displayed at a forum to celebrate the milestone of 100,000 sales of the Nissan...

Nissan commemorated the milestone of 100,000 Nissan LEAF sales in Japan with a forum focused on the creation of a “zero-emission society.” About 100 people, including local and prefectural government officials and company executives, participated in...

Children continue to be at risk and are affected by the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), making it essential that their health and well-being are prioritized in the response. “Schools...

Fiat Chrysler is recalling 4.8 million US vehicles over a defect that could prevent drivers from turning off cruise control. It warned owners, including those outside the US, not to use the function until they get...