By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON | Fri May 3, 2013 3:46am EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. employment growth likely picked up in April, but probably not by enough to counter other signs that suggest the economy [...]

By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS | Fri May 3, 2013 5:57am EDT BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The euro zone economy will contract by more than expected this year and budget deficits will decline more slowly, the European [...]

By Jared Ferrie WIN KITE, Myanmar | Fri May 3, 2013 6:29am EDT WIN KITE, Myanmar (Reuters) – Three Muslim men peered over a bamboo fence built recently to fortify their village in central Myanmar. They gazed [...]

BISHKEK | Fri May 3, 2013 6:57am EDT BISHKEK (Reuters) – A U.S. military transport plane carrying fuel crashed on Friday near the border between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, an official from Kyrgyzstan’s [...]

CAIRO | Thu May 2, 2013 9:42pm EDT CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces fired tear gas to disperse a small group of hardline Islamist protesters who were attempting to scale the walls of the state security [...]

By David Alexander WASHINGTON | Thu May 2, 2013 10:20pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea’s continuing development of nuclear technology and long-range ballistic missiles will move it closer to its [...]

By Ju-min Park and Paul Eckert SEOUL/WASHINGTON | Thu May 2, 2013 11:19pm EDT SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea sentenced an American citizen to 15 years of hard labor on Thursday for what it said were [...]

By Anna Driver and Michael Erman Fri May 3, 2013 1:10am EDT (Reuters) – Hedge fund TPG-Axon Capital has won nearly half the seats on SandRidge Energy Corp’s board but faces an uphill battle to reverse the oil [...]

By Selam Gebrekidan and Joshua Schneyer NEW YORK | Fri May 3, 2013 1:32am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Texas fertilizer plant that exploded two weeks ago, killing 14 people and injuring about 200, was a repeat [...]

By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD | Fri May 3, 2013 2:20am EDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Gunmen on a motorcycle on Friday shot dead a prosecutor investigating the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister [...]

By Tim Hepher and Praveen Menon PARIS/DUBAI | Fri May 3, 2013 2:33am EDT PARIS/DUBAI (Reuters) – Boeing has shown airlines a blueprint for the world’s longest-range passenger jet, adding spice to a long-awaited [...]

By Ross Kerber, Jim Finkle and Mark Hosenball BOSTON/WASHINGTON | Fri May 3, 2013 2:50am EDT BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The two brothers suspected of carrying out the deadly attacks on the Boston Marathon [...]

By Ruma Paul DHAKA | Fri May 3, 2013 2:54am EDT DHAKA (Reuters) – Police investigating the collapse of a Bangladesh factory building that killed more than 500 people have arrested an engineer who warned the [...]

By Mark Felsenthal and Steve Holland MEXICO CITY | Fri May 3, 2013 2:55am EDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama gave his blessing on Thursday to a new security arrangement with Mexican leader [...]

ANKARA | Thu May 2, 2013 8:37am EDT ANKARA (Reuters) – Five Turkish border guards were wounded in a clash at the Syrian border with an armed group that one Turkish official described as smugglers but an opposition [...]

By Siva Sithraputhran KUALA LUMPUR | Thu May 2, 2013 9:07am EDT KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said on Thursday that tens of thousands of “dubious” voters may [...]

By Michael Shields BRATISLAVA | Thu May 2, 2013 9:18am EDT BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – The European Central Bank cut interest rates for the first time in 10 months on Thursday, driven to act by an economy wallowing [...]

BAGHDAD | Thu May 2, 2013 9:36am EDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) – April was Iraq’s bloodiest month for almost five years, with 712 people killed in bomb attacks and other violence, the United Nations Iraq mission [...]

KHARTOUM | Thu May 2, 2013 9:45am EDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) – More than 60 miners were killed this week in Sudan’s Darfur region when the gold mine they were working in collapsed, a police spokesman said [...]

By Ben Klayman and Deepa Seetharaman DETROIT | Thu May 2, 2013 9:53am EDT DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Co posted stronger-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday as the U.S. automaker kept a tight [...]

By Ju-min Park SEOUL | Thu May 2, 2013 10:54am EDT SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea sentenced U.S. citizen Kenneth Bae to 15 years hard labor on Thursday for what it said were crimes against the state, a move [...]