GENEVA, Nov. 13 -- A blue diamond weighing nearly 10 carats has sold at auction in Switzerland for 20.5 million Swiss francs ($25.6 million) including fees. The pear-shaped 9.51-carat "Mellon Blue" - ... Read More
LONDON, Nov. 12 -- Canadian-Hungarian-British writer David Szalay won the Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for "Flesh", the story of one man's life from working-class origins in Hungary to mega-weal... Read More
Washington, Nov. 12 -- China said on Monday it is making good on its pledge to crack down on chemicals that can be used to make fentanyl, a key issue for President Donald Trump during recent talks wit... Read More
Manila, Nov. 3 -- Canada and the Philippines, both staunch critics of China's increasingly coercive actions in the disputed South China Sea, signed a key defence agreement on Sunday to boost combat dr... Read More
LONDON, Nov. 1 -- King Charles III on Thursday stripped his disgraced brother Prince Andrew of his remaining titles and evicted him from his royal residence after weeks of pressure to act over his rel... Read More
LONDON, Oct. 26 -- Left-wing independent Catherine Connolly is set to become Ireland's next president after her rival conceded defeat in a presidential election Saturday. Vote counting was still under... Read More
Tallahassee, Oct. 26 -- A Punjab-origin truck driver, who is charged with killing three people in a deadly crash in Florida in August, had failed a commercial driver's licence (CDL) test 10 times in t... Read More
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 9 -- California has become the third U.S. state to designate Diwali - the Hindu "Festival of Lights" - as an official statewide holiday. Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law ... Read More
ISLAMABAD, Oct. 3 -- The death toll after violent clashes between security forces and demonstrators in Pakistan-administered Kashmir rose to nine on Thursday as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sent a de... Read More
Fort Lauderdale (US), Sept. 30 -- A Punjab-origin commercial truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people on a Florida highway last month waived his first appearance heari... Read More