The Chinese government has handed out a record setting fine to Japanese auto parts makers in a foreboding sign of things to come for Western firms which the government has found guilty of similar offenses.
The arrests of numerous outsiders at protests in Ferguson suggests that outside political groups are trying to exploit a community's grief and sense of alienation from local political life to advance their own goals.
Peaceful protests against the shooting death of Michael Brown once again devolved into arrests and confrontations with the police in Ferguson, MO.
Airstrikes by the United States on various targets and positions of the Islamic State have enabled Kurdish pesh merga and Iraqi Special Forces to retake control of the Mosul Dam, one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure in all of Iraq.
In a development sure to only fuel protests against policing in the United States, police in St. Louis, Missouri shot and killed a mentally disturbed, young, black man brandishing a knife.
The terrorist group known as the Islamic State, which has seized control of large parts of Syria and Iraq, has beheaded an American journalist named James Wright Foley and is threatening to murder another named Steven Sotloff.
Pakistani politician Imran Khan, leading a march of thousands of supporters and government opponents, has promised to overthrow the democratically elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Kiev, Ukraine as part of a diplomatic push to bring an end to ongoing violence in eastern Ukraine that broke out after the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovich in Feb. 2014.
Rocket fire and airstrikes have resumed in the Gaza Strip and Israel after the collapse of a delicately negotiated ceasefire extension was reached Aug. 18.
Two students in southern California have been arrested on charges that they were plotting a school shooting when classes resumed for the 2014-2015 academic year.
A Saudi prince and his entourage were robbed at gunpoint as they made their way from a luxury hotel to a private French airport used by the rich and powerful.
The Ukrainian government and pro-Russian rebel fighters are each blaming each other for a devastating rocket attack on a convoy of refugees as it tried to escape from the city of Luhansk, which has been the scene of fierce fighting in recent weeks.
An annual report released by the United States Department of Agriculture that calculates the cost of raising a child, among other statistics about U.S. economic life, has determined it costs $245,340 to raise a child to the age of 18.
An Ohio man has admitted to having sex with nearly 100 corpses over a timespan of more than 15 years.
China has found Mercedes-Benz guilty of price manipulation as a result of an investigation into the business practices of a number of automakers and car part suppliers.
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