China's top court will rule on intellectual property cases for the first time from January 1, the government said, elevating the handling of an issue that has become a key complaint in the trade war with the US. Washington and Beijing are currently in talks to resolve a bruising trade spat that…

Huawei Technologies’ rotating Chairman Guo Ping said the Chinese tech giant’s revenue in 2018 is expected to be US$108.5 billion, up 21 percent…

The paralysis triggered by the US government shutdown could have unexpected consequences, such as muddying economic statistics just as the markets are…

Fifty years after Italy’s Matera was a national embarrassment because of its extreme poverty, the city is rescuing its dignity, baroque palaces and cave churches to become a European Capital of Culture. “Yes, it’s true, we went from shame to glory,” Matera mayor Raffaello De…

Leather riding boots are neatly lined up on a carpet, a picture shows blood-thirsty hounds on a fox hunt and a fountain spews water from the mouths of…

]Crowds of tourists stared in awe at the towering pyramids of Giza near Cairo Saturday undaunted by a nearby bomb attack a day earlier that killed holidaymakers from Vietnam. A roadside bombing claimed the lives of three tourists and their Egyptian guide Friday when it ripped through the bus they were…

 US crude oil refinery inputs decreased during the week ending Dec. 21, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Friday. According…

Italian lawmakers on Saturday approved a revised 2019 budget after the populist government’s initial plan faced stiff opposition from EU officials…

The final weeks of 2018 have been dramatic, to say the least. Global stock markets are roiling, disturbed in part by the anti-free market trade sentiment…

Spain's prime minister said on Friday his government is preparing emergency measures to preserve the rights of Britons in Spain in the event of the…

China’s express delivery sector has handled 50 billion parcels so far this year, the State Post Bureau (SPB) said on Friday. Boosted by booming e-commerce, the express delivery industry saw fast growth over the past few years, with the number of handled parcels increasing by 10 billion on average…

A so-called “smart intervention” by the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has stabilized local currency rates over the past weeks, Eghtesad online…

A malware attack that appears to have originated outside the US delayed the hardcopy distribution of several major newspapers, according to a report. The LA Times said Saturday that the attack, which was first assumed to have been a server outage, hit a computer network at Tribune Publishing which is…