UK hails $37 bln of foreign investment in vote of confidence

HAMPTON COURT, England – Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced 29.5 billion pounds ($36.8 billion) of private sector investment in Britain at a gathering of global executives

China warns of coming surge in respiratory illnesses

CHINA said a surge in mycoplasma-caused pneumonia in children shows signs of ebbing, but warned that other respiratory illnesses are likely to

4-year-old American hostage released by Hamas

NANTUCKET, Massachusetts — A 4-year-old American girl captured after seeing her parents slain by Hamas fighters who stormed southern Israel from Gaza

North Korea vows more satellite launches, beefs up military on border

SEOUL — North Korea warned on Monday it would continue to exercise its sovereign rights, including through satellite launches, while its troops

Cross-country skier’s private parts freeze in sub-zero Finland event

THE SUB-ZERO temperatures in Ruka in northern Finland took their toll on Swedish cross-country skier Calle Halfvarsson during a 20 km mass

New Zealand’s new government sworn in, parliament expected to open next week

WELLINGTON — New Zealand’s new right-of-centre government was sworn in on Monday, with parliament expected to sit next week and begin working

Japan’s corporate service inflation accelerates in Oct. — Bank of Japan

TOKYO — Japan’s business-to-business service prices rose 2.3% in October from a year earlier, central bank data showed on Monday. The year-on-year increase

Greenpeace accuses China oil and gas firms of ‘greenwashing’ LNG purchases

SINGAPORE — Big oil and gas companies in China and elsewhere are using low-quality carbon offsets to “greenwash” their imports of natural