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US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton met coal and steel workers in the Appalachian region and wooed blue-collar voters in a part of the country with strong support for Republican Donald Trump.
Lawyers charged with untangling the multimillion-dollar estate of music superstar Prince said they still have not located a will that could a avert years-long dispute over his fortune. They have, however, not stopped looking.
Talks on concluding Greece’s bailout review to unlock new funds and debt relief are progressing slowly and no deal is likely at a special meeting of euro zone finance ministers on 9 May, two sources close to the talks said.
A British vote to leave the European Union could put 250 billion pounds ($367 billion) of trade at risk, both with EU members and with the more than 50 countries that have free-trade agreements with the EU, campaigners who wish Britain to remain in the EU said.
Washington and Moscow said that they were working hard to extend the truce in Syria to Aleppo, the divided northern city where a sharp escalation of violence in recent weeks left cease-fire in tatters and torpedoed peace talks.
Hundreds of tourists and a handful of emotional Cuban-Americans arrived on the first US cruise ship to sail to Havana in decades, spilling onto the cobbled streets of the old city, where they were warmly greeted by residents.
A sweeping free trade deal being negotiated between the European Union and the United States will lower food safety and environmental standards, Greenpeace said, citing confidential documents from talks.
A Russian man who spent about three years imprisoned in the United States for creating the computer malware ‘Gozi’ has been spared further prison time but has been ordered to pay $6.9 million to cover losses to bank customers, lawyers said.
The bodies of US mountaineers Alex Lowe and David Bridges, who died in 1999 avalanche in the Himalayas, have been found by another pair of climbers, according to a charity founded and run by Lowe’s widow.
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