US & Canada
GM to pay feds $35M fine over deadly ignition fails
General Motors was fined $35m and agreed to take part in “unprecedented oversight requirements” on Friday over its massive recall of cars ...9/11 Museum opens in New York
U.S. President Obama commemorated victims of the Sept. 11 attacks at the recently completed museum and memorial in a service Thursday.Jill Abramson replaced as New York Times executive editor
The New York Times Co on Wednesday replaced executive editor Jill Abramson in a surprising move after less than three years in ...Barack Obama meets Syrian opposition leader in Washington
U.S. President Barack Obama has denounced the upcoming presidential election in Syria slated for June 3 as illegitimate, the White House stated ...Anti-Beijing protests flare as tensions rise between Vietnam and China
Anti-China mobs torched up to 15 foreign-owned factories and trashed many more in southern Vietnam as anger over the recent deployment by ...US surveillance aircraft deployed to search for Nigerian girls taken by Boko Haram
The United States said it is flying "manned" missions over Nigeria in search of over 200 abducted schoolgirls, after the Lagos government ...Michelle Obama gives weekly address on kidnapped Nigerian girls
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama took the rare step of delivering her husband President Barack Obama\'s weekly radio address on Saturday to ...Putin urges Ukrainian militants to delay referendum on autonomy
President Vladimir Putin said Russia pulled back its troops from the Ukrainian border and called on separatists in the country\'s south and ...Climate change makes America more dangerous, report says
Scientists who worked on the report said its main messsage was that climate change was already disrupting the lives of Americans – ...OECD cuts global growth forecast for 2014
The OECD cut its global growth expectations from its November outlook from 3.6 percent to 3.4 percent for 2014, although it kept ...




