NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 jolted southeast of Honshu, Japan at 21:02:25 GMT on Thursday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, ...

GAZA, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- At least 15 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others injured on Thursday evening in Israeli airstrikes targeting two residential houses in Gaza City, according to ...

OSLO, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Three individuals died and four others sustained serious injuries after a long-distance bus veered off highway and plunged into a lake in Hadsel, northern Norway, local ...

VIENNA, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Two skiers died after being buried by an avalanche in the Austrian alpine state of Tyrol around midday Thursday, local authorities said. The victims, a father and his son, ...

ANKARA, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Türkiye's central bank on Thursday cut its benchmark interest rate by 250 basis points (bps) to 47.5 percent, marking its first rate cut in nearly two years. The bank ...

HOUSTON, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- A man shot three children whom he accused of trying to rob him at gunpoint on Christmas Day night, authorities said on Thursday. The boys, aged between 12 and 14, were ...

GAZA, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Five staff members of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip were killed on Thursday due to Israeli attacks on the hospital, the Palestinian official news agency ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed a law requiring companies that are big fossil fuel polluters to help pay to repair damage caused by extreme weather, ...

Overall, consumers spent 3.8 percent more from Nov. 1 through Dec. 24 than they did in the same period last year, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse, which excludes auto sales. The tally doesn't ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Finding an affordable car in the United States has already become a challenge for many budget-constrained Americans, as new import tariffs on Mexican-built vehicles ...

TALLINN, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Estonian government convened an emergency meeting on Thursday after the Estlink-2 power cable connecting Estonia and Finland along the floor of the Gulf of Finland was ...

More than half of California, and 62 percent of Los Angeles County, is either foreign-born or has at least one immigrant parent, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census data.