...over Marin Cilic of Croatia on Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Masters Series event. He’s now the last of the top four seeds left in the tournament after No. 3 Roger Federer was upset by 1...st of them take between grass court play at Wimbledon and the hard court season leading up to the U.S. Open. Upsets have also befallen top players at the women’s Rogers Cup in Toronto, where Maria Sh...

The combination of soaring consumer prices at home and the worsening global economic outlook has ostensibly added a further complication to China’s endeavor to keep economic growth on track while preventing overheating. As the world’s second largest economy, China will have no chance of maintaining its growth momentum amid a global recession. So Chinese policymakers will have to keep a watchful ...

...t an extra kilo or two to bordering on obesity. But the statistic is enough to warrant attention. Also on Monday the Central News Agency (CNA) reported that over the past five years, Taiwanese women’s waistlines have on average seen a 3.6 centimeter increase. The CNA also reported that Taipei’s Mackay Memorial Hospital conducted a study on behalf of the Bureau of Health Promotion which found that 41.9 percent of women have waistlines that are larger than 80 centimeters. This percentage rep...

...peace and never to work for any particular person or group. If that sounds very familiar to you, it’s because Abhisit Vejjajiva made exactly the same pledges in late 2008. Out he has limped and in she...de. Not only has a pro-Thaksin political movement resumed power, but his sister has become Thailand’s first female prime minister, and the man “hiding” in exile has had to deny that he’s the one setti...

Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon said Friday that he will not run in the next presidential race, rejecting speculation that he is using the upcoming referendum on the city's free school lunch program to boost his political fortunes ahead of next year's election. "Debates over my political future have hampered the meaning of the referendum on free lunch itself and distorted my sincerity on the vote. I deci...

South Korea is expected to hold off on further monetary tightening for some time, probably for the rest of this year, amid growing confidence of bringing inflation under control, Moody's Analytics said Thursday. "Monetary tightening has likely ended for this year," said Alaistair Chan, an economist at the subsidiary of Moody's Investor Service. He said the South Korean government's decision to ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A gunman opened fire inside Estonia's Defense Ministry and tried to take hostages on Thursday, but he apparently was shot and killed by police who stormed the building, an off...losion and also smelled the gunpowder smoke," he told SVT by telephone. An official at the country's Security Police would not say how the shooter died, but a spokesman for the northern district pros...

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street's wildest week since 2008 continued with another 300-point move for the Dow on Thursday. This time, stocks shot up after investors saw small signs that the economy isn't h... banks, French ones in particular. The head of France's central bank said Thursday that the country's banks are solid and blamed "unfounded rumors" for big drops in their stocks. In the U.S., media c...

NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. stock futures fell Thursday, following European markets lower and a day after another big drop on Wall Street. Worries have focused on the health of European banks, particularly those in France, this week. France's central bank said Thursday that the country's banks are solid and blamed ``unfounded rumors'' for big drops in their stocks. The French CAC 40 stock index fell 3...

...eported. Three other people were shot dead by security forces in the eastern oil hub of Deir Ezzor's Al-Matar neighbourhood and several houses were torched, the Britain-based rights group said. Tank... diplomats to try to get accurate information. His briefing was "depressing and chilling," Britain's deputy UN ambassador Philip Parham said. Western envoys said the Security Council would have to c...