Quiz: How well did you keep up with business news in 2019?
NEW YORK — 2019 wound up being another big year for news from the business world. There was a leadership transition at Google's parent company, a huge...
Mahathir: Islamic conference in KL to tackle Islamophobia
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Wednesday an Islamic conference that includes leaders from Iran, Turkey and Qatar is aim...
Tokyo court awards damages to female journalist in rape case
TOKYO — A Tokyo court awarded damages to a freelance journalist on Wednesday in a high-profile rape case that had been dropped by Japanese prosecutors...
UK services industry sees little joy in post-Brexit world
LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decisive victory in last week's general election provided little comfort to Britain's once world-beating finan...
European planet-studying mission launches from South America
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A European spacecraft launched from South America Wednesday on a three-year mission to study planets in other solar systems.
ON Football: A how-to guide to getting to the Super Bowl
With eight of the 12 postseason berths already occupied, it's time to look at who the other four might be. And what all of them need to go deep into J...
Asian shares mixed after Wall Street hits new record highs
TOKYO — Asian shares meandered Wednesday after Wall Street logged fresh record highs, but investor optimism about an interim U.S.-China trade deal ann...
PG&E, California wildfire victims rework $13.5B settlement
SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric reworked a $13.5 billion settlement with victims of deadly wildfires blamed on the utility to try to preven...
Mayor: Schools official who called Jews ‘brutes’ should quit
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — A New Jersey mayor on Tuesday said a school board member should quit over comments she made about the shooting at a kosher market ...
Why some cities and states balk at face recognition tech
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Police departments around the U.S. are asking citizens to trust them to use facial recognition software as another handy tool in ...
Most US opioid overdose deaths accidental, 4% are suicide
Accidental overdoses cause 90% of all U.S. opioid-related deaths while suicides account for far fewer of these fatalities than previously thought, a n...
Die-hard Venezuelan soccer fans defy political divide
Venezuela is the only South American country where baseball and not soccer is the No. 1 sport. Still, a group of fans calling themselves the “Red Demo...
Egyptian officials unveil new archaeological finds
CAIRO — Archaeologists in Egypt have unveiled two new artifacts from antiquity, a rare statue of one of the country’s most famous pharaohs and a dimin...
Global stock markets more subdued after US hits records
TOKYO — Stock markets eased back on Tuesday after hopes over Brexit and a trade truce between the U.S. and China had led to a rally and new record hig...
AP Photos: Unexploded land mines awful legacy of Afghan wars
KABUL, Afghanistan — When 9-year-old Eimal stepped out of his home in the Panjshir Valley in northeastern Afghanistan, he had no way of knowing that h...
Pakistan sentences former dictator to death in treason case
ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced the country's former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf to death in a treason case related to the...
Asian shares rise after Wall Street rally on China reports
TOKYO — Asian shares rose Tuesday following a rally on Wall Street that sent the major indexes to record highs, cheered by surprisingly strong economi...
In Afghanistan, Sen. Graham says US troop drawdown possible
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday that President Donald Trump may announce an American troop drawdown from Afghanistan before ...
3rd night of clashes as Lebanon puts off talks on new PM
BEIRUT — A group of men clashed with security forces in Beirut for the third consecutive night Monday, hours after Lebanon's president postponed talks...
PG&E, California governor face off in bankruptcy dispute
SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will have to quickly overhaul a complex plan addressing more than $50 billion in wildfire claims to gai...
Stocks rise on Wall Street as rally stretches to fourth day
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks rallied in morning trading on Monday, rising with European and several Asian markets after China reported surprisingly strong s...
Audubon’s annual Christmas Bird Count stronger than ever
Ít's been 120 years since New York ornithologist Frank Chapman launched his Christmas Bird Count as a bold new alternative to what had been a longtim...
Stocks mostly rise on Chinese report, US-China trade deal
BEIJING — Global stock markets mostly rose Monday on a positive economic report from China, last week's long-awaited U.S.-Chinese trade deal, and grea...
AP Exclusive: Birmingham mayor backing Biden for president
The mayor of Alabama’s largest city is endorsing Joe Biden for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination just weeks after the vice president m...
China’s Xi says HK had its grimmest year since handover
BEIJING — Hong Kong has faced its "grimmest and most complex year” since the former British colony was returned to China, President Xi Jinping said Mo...
Across India, opposition building against citizenship law
NEW DELHI — Thousands of university students flooded the streets of India's capital, while a southern state government led a march and demonstrators h...
US says it won’t accept North Korea-set nuclear deadline
SEOUL, South Korea — A senior U.S. diplomat said Monday that Washington won’t accept a year-end deadline set by North Korea to make concessions in sta...
House vote, and on to the Senate: What’s next in impeachment
WASHINGTON — The House will vote on the impeachment of President Donald Trump this week after spending the past three months investigating the preside...
Sackler-owned opioid maker pushes overdose treatment abroad
The gleaming white booth towered over the medical conference in Italy in October, advertising a new brand of antidote for opioid overdoses. “Be prepar...
Standing ovation in Milan for Domingo’s 50th anniversary
MILAN — Opera star Placido Domingo received a standing ovation for his 50th anniversary gala concert at La Scala on Sunday and returned the appreciati...