Japan’s economy grew at an annualized rate of 2.4 percent last quarter, prompting hopes that Abe’s economic plan is delivering on its promise to get the country out of its perennial stagnation.

As the Iranian ship approaches Yemeni waters, a familiar refrain.

Malaysia and Indonesia reversed themselves on the issue of receiving refugees, but big European countries are steadfastly opposed to the EU’s migrant quotas.

“Hundreds of thousands” die in miserable circumstances in Britain because the NHS’ end-of-life care can be “appalling,” reports a UK health ombudsman.

U.S. shale gas is about to be unleashed on the world, and it’s going to fundamentally change the nature of LNG markets.

Two recent canonizations are the latest gesture the media has willfully misinterpreted.

Boats of migrants fleeing Burma and Bangladesh are floating around Southeast Asia with nowhere to go. Now, the Philippines says it will take action.

Merkel and Hollande ramped up the green rhetoric today, but Germany is hardly setting a good eco-example.

Does we support Shi’a militias in a potential bloodbath, or wave goodbye to Iraq as we know it?

China is investing in Brazil in only the most recent of a spate of headline-grabbing, multi-billion dollar foreign investments.